| Show NEWS itier by PAUL I 1 MALLONy LON released by western union eisenhower TO REPORT WHEN PEACE COMES washington the peace rumors have been corning coming from nearly every place except the s spot pot that tha matters inside germany the widest spread expectation can be traced to a misunderstanding of newsmen from a white house order word was passed to them from those august portals to stand by tor for an important announcement the newsmen figured it must be a peace offer when no announcement was issued they deduced the warning might have related to the peace offer reported out of paris by INS upon which the white house decided not to comment in the end when the peace news does break eventually it is not likely to come from the white louse house but from general Elsen Eisen howers headquarters and there will be no possibility of doubting its authenticity arrangements to that effect have been made the surrender will be military in all probability and made to him rather than through berlin wash ington political channels and he be is empowered to announce it As for the peace offer I 1 it was simply a bid to get us to sell out the russians and therefore could not be seriously considered the other rumors in general have sprung from financial authorities in new york and were largely inquiries designed to sound out the administration a FACING destruction the germans of course are fac ing complete destruction of their entire country if anyone with any common sense could get into authority the germans would decide to save themselves the rest of the fight but all our inner reports from germany suggest the people are phlegmatic and in a mood to take whatever comes from anyone they have been beaten into complete docility by years under hitler the soldiers have shown an increasing aptitude tor for surrendering since their bulge in belgium was broken after the professional soldiers retired behind the rhine to prepare tor for the spring campaign the left alone at the front have not fought well but no collapse in morale has been apparent yet and the irmy army as a whole is still tough events up to the rhine and across the remagen bridgehead have of course merely been leading toward a greater full scale assault evl even n the brilliant patton patch encirclement of the rich industrial is merely preliminary neither was the collapse of the ludendorf Lud endorf bridge an impediment to our further advance we had three other bridges set up and actually before the announcement of the collapse was given out EARLY NEED SHOWN for our big scale offensive sive however we will need at least two or three other bridgeheads established in the north the best fighting mute to berlin is across the northern plains ahead of us in the remagen area is difficult hilly country of volcanic origin and of little use except for nazi defense but ahead of us in the north is the industrial ruhr and thickly settled communities vital to sustenance of the german effort it is being commonly reported our strategy will be to effect a junction with the russians south of berlin rather than heading directly toward the capital to do that we will have to break through the nazi defenses with a roving armored column our immediate strategy no doubt will be to develop spearheads spear heads across the rhine switching our power from one to the other as the russians do to find the weak weaker er resistance si rather than taking a fixed fix ed route it will not be necessary to take hamburg and the northern coastline although if we could land a torce force there in the rear of the german defense line they could be dealt a crushing blow the russians also have been mopping up reducing pockets in th their e j r rear knocking out a lot of german forces therein and drawing up their tt power to the oder river as we are to the rhine both are threatening to cross at any point when that KT movement starts you will know the ednal drive is on 1 in divid yai americans ambric Am had bil r lion dollars in liquid savings at the close of 1944 according to the sta report of the securities and tsi r commission for the year this tremendous latent purchasing power included 22 billions in curren c cy r 39 billions in time deposits 34 billions b ions st in demand deposits and 53 billions in government securities savings for the year 1914 were weri increased by the unprecedented sum sr of 40 billion dollars te timins as much as in 1940 this ahls in m addition to war r bond holdings |
