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Show ' - Victory Ends Long Rule by Military Might Combined Strength of the j Allies Drives Naziism i To Defeat. I Victory for the Allies in Europe the most anxiously awaited event in modern his- 3 tory means the liberation of a continent which has been Ij under the domination of mili-I mili-I : tary might ever since the Ger- man blitz rolled into Poland , in the fall of 1939. Starting with Hitler's bloodless blood-less conquests of trusting neighbors, the threat which has hung over the world has finally been dissipated by an overwhelming superiority of the Allies in men, materials, air power, sea power and the I overwhelming desire of free peoples to rid the world of the : tyranny which has "blacked out the lights of Europe." The Allied victory and the capitulation capitu-lation of Germany has once more restored re-stored freedom to Europe. Victory is '; sweet after the period of despotism ; which has prevailed but, as in 1918, the world must appreciate that victory vic-tory is one of arms alone so far ; and must be followed by a peace that will ensure the world against anything like the rise of National J Socialism again. 1 June Invasion Started It. t. Today the Allies have beaten Ger-' Ger-' many to her knees, something that was beyond the comprehension of i most of the world little less than a , year ago. The invasion of Europe I started it in June, 1944, and the quick success in France and the drive to the heart of the reich itself blasted the theory of a "European fortress" that Hitler said was im-ij im-ij pregnable. I Battle-hardened veterans of Brit- aln who stopped Rommel in Egypt, f the husky young Yanks in their su- perb equipment, Frenchmen flght- Ing to win back their homeland, the -i bitter Poles who remembered how 1 they tried to fight the Wehrmacht Jj with nothing but rifles all these are responsible for the downfall of what was supposed to be an "invincible" ' army. jq And hammering away on the other " side of Germany were the Russians, who took the best the Germans could r- strike them with, and then came son back to drive the hated Hun out of Russia and beat him back until jj there was no retreat and there finish 'w off Germany as a military power. jvec . The victory in Europe i won but what years of suffering that conti- . nent has seen since the day that rjl " Adolf Hitler first became chancellor of Germany In January, 1933. |