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Show MARSHALL FEARS REPORTS OF WAR NEARLY OVER General George C. Marshall, U. S. Army Chief of Staff, who has just returned from the European battlefronts, asked the people of this country to permit no echoes to reach the men in the grip of battle that would indicate a belief at home that the war is practically over in Europe. The General points out that the Allied forces on the western front andj in Italy are attacking along almost 110 miles of blazing battle lines, fighting in the cold and mud, against an enemy occupying favorable fav-orable defensive positions and offering of-fering a desperate resistance. He does not want soldiers in the midst of battle to get the idea that the people at home believe they have a push-over. He frankly expresses ex-presses fears of a "revulsion of feeling that would follow such a disclosure in the midst of present battles." |