Show lJ j Senators See Nazi Collapse n 1 An Any Time r Wars War's End in 45 f f CumulatIve Effects of Defeats on All Fronts Plus Bombing of Cities Expected to Hasten German Defeat By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator Service Union Trust Building D C CIt CIt It IS my guess that the y war ar will end by 1945 the senator said The collapse of Germany may come any anytime anytime time Pencils slid over copy paper Mme Mine too We sat around the long green committee room table in the Senate Office press and radio men and women and a afew afew few Visitors listened to the three senators who had made a 40 m mile e trip m Maine Mame up through Nova Scotia through Green Greenland Greenland land Iceland Great Britain Africa the Near East East India China Aus Australla Australia the Pacific islands and back home bome homeI I thought as I took down the notes for my broadcast that I WIshed many of the people who write to tome tome me calling congress dumb were there to listen to these men regaling us WIth first hand band information facts figures impressions which later they were to pass on to their cot col colleagues leagues In the form of long and de deta detailed ta tailed ed reports Much of the material will never be printed The trip was spoofed by the pa papers pens pers when It was proposed as an another another other Junket But sitting there hs to these men there was no doubt In my mind that they had bad done donea a real Job ob They had slept in n gaudy villas m in Africa they had camped in inthe Inthe the fields With the troops lam lain un tin under tinder der thatched roofs in bamboo shel shelters tens taken their chances across wide sweeps of water m planes pained by any fighter protection They had tried to find out the things you and I want to know how the war is being fought Reasons Why You have already read the gist of what those senators and Senator Lodge who made the Journey plus a side trip saId The information will come out in reports and speeches before the senate and the house It was a long session but the thing that struck me was the second sentence which I quoted at the be gunning of thiS art cle The collapse of Germany may come at any time These men didn t pretend to be military experts or prophets That statement of one of them Senator Russell of Georgia to which the others Senators Mead of New York and Bre Brewster ster of lame agreed was based on what they had heard and seen ng photographs of what Russell called leveled Hamburg by the time thiS is in print there may be other German cities leveled as fiat Another thing was the testImony of ofa ofa a French official who believed Ger Germany Germany many would crumble soon He was anxious that America be prepared to step m in and take control Unless we v e did he insisted chaos would spread perhaps anarchy I 1 have heard that fear expressed by other Europeans BasIs of BelIeF What IS the basIs of the belle belief that Germany will collapse suddenly and perhaps soon On the belief that history will in some measure 1 repeat Itself as It aly always ays does That the cIvil an morale will crumble m in Germany that the spirit of hopeless hopelessness hopelessness I ness will well spread to the army as It dId m in 1918 Already ye se know that submarine crews no longer volunteer They have to be drafted Th s is where the rift began In Germany s morale m in the last sar ar sarAnd And what will contribute most to Germany s collapse Not the Russian vIctorIes alone not the drive that will come v hen as many bel eve the British Amer AmerIcan scan Ican ons are fled These will turn the scale But the cumulative effect of defeats on all fronts plus the bombing of her cItIes already at work will bring victory through a r power The Germans a very high British offic al said sud to us not long ago are area area a log cal people When the realization tIon of the hopelessness of further fighting Is establIshed they will be- be begin gm gin the logical process of surrender And If you read the report of Chief of Staff General Marshall you will see how the on of the growth of AllIed a r power spreads slowly over the whole battle scene The army air forces says the general are now attacking the en enemy enemy emy on ten different fronts through throughout throughout out the world Their victOries wherever they come In contact with Ith the enemy testIfy to the gallantry and skIll of American p lots and crews to the mechanical efficiency of the planes and to the leadership of General Arnold and the theother theother other commanders HIstory of the War WarGo Go through General Marshall s dramatic h story of the war to date and you will see again and again how the Allied air might has gradually gradually ally rIsen from the days m in the first phase when as the general says on all fighting fronts we were m In a desperate on due to lack of material into the later phase when hen m in the southwest Pa Pacific air superiority was demon demonstrated demonstrated by a loss ratIo of four to toone toone one m in our favor untIl today when hen the combined American British bomber offensive against the conti continent vent nent of Europe gives promise of be being mg ing a decIsive factor m in the ultImate destruction of the German CItadel I Now that the Allies are m in posses possession slon sion of the Foggia air bases m in Italy we can reach what the President de described described scribed as the area of Germany hitherto Invulnerable We are nearer the southern German cItIes now than the air force In the Brit sh Isles IS to many of the cit elt es against which It has hurled its most devas tat ng blows and those cIties of southern Germa Germany and Austria hitherto safe are now as vulnerable vulnerable able as the cItIes of the Rhine and Ruhr as Hamburg and Cologne The war is not over The fighting potentIal of the German army m in number of men equipment general sh p supplies and morale IS as high as ever But as I sat In the Senate Office building and heard the pre prediction diction the collapse of Germany may come at any time my mind went back to the anxIOus faces the nervous inquIries that came to me methe methe the day that Brita n and France de declared dared war and I waited to lease lea Berlin where I had been broadcast broadcasting mg ing to America Thi greatest fear of the a average German then was the fear of Amer AmerIcan American Ican participatIon In the war We couldn t k the stupid leaders belIe believed ed edget get there m in time If we wanted to They didn t guess s e would come via the skyways low ow they know Rote To anone anyone wishing a com coin complete copy of the record which americans win never forget which IS what the President called Gen General General eral Marshall 1 s fine soldIerly ree ord of achievements of our army throughout two of the most I dons dous years of our history I shall he be glad to send a copy Simply send me your name and address o 0 charge See address at head of cot col column e eWe We Need Scrap The words all out and drive have lust Just about lost their meaning And yet somehow somewhere Iron and steel scrap has bas to be col coI collected There IS plenty of It m in the country For the government to col lest It it It would take an army There is only one way It can be gotten That is through individual effort It involves no cost It simply requires a lIttle effort and some tIme The mills now have only enough scrap to last two two- and a half months The shooting has lust Just started un uncountable uncountable countable tons of metal are going to be dropped on the enemy m in the months ahead If you wa t for some someone someone one else lse In your community to come and get your scrap the army and the navy won t get the steel they need Your ye ve IS essential Civilian Awards The war department has borrowed an on of private industry as aswell aswell well as one of the pioneers m in develop develop- developing mg ing thiS Idea Ezra S Taylor of the Pullman Company Chicago Ill III will Ill operate It Mr Taylor has been appointed ex expert expert pert consultant to the secretary of war and IS chairman chauman of the depart depart- department department ment s new board on cIvilian awards The board has been set up to increase material economies and generally improve efficiency clency by uti utilizing lazing the Ideas of the 1 em employees employees of the department |