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Show WASHINGTON Nys FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN General MarshaU'BHeporot - of lVfe?"LTelort by the Chief h J . if t0 the Secretary of War has been done and why s admlrSS6- General Marshall sr i1 most by those who saidWnfhr- S,eneral Pershing said of him, "Marshall is the Des oiticer of his lime." InwL16 su,mmary of the report follows. fol-lows. Reviewing briefly the military situation as we find it berpH11;,!',1943' U wU1 be "numbered "num-bered that our entry into war was marked by a succession of serious reverses, at Pearl Harbor, Har-bor, in the Plilippines, and through the Malaysian Archipelago, Archipel-ago, it was a time for calm courage and stout resolution on the part of the people of the United States. With our Pacific fleet crippled and the Philippines overwhelmed at the outset, we were forced to watch the enemy progressively engulf our resistance resist-ance to his advances. One year ago the German offensive in Russia was sweeping through the Donetz Basin, jeopardizing the whole of South Russia and the Caucasus and ominously menacing the Allied positions in the Middle East. Rommel's Afri-ka Afri-ka Korps with selected Italian troops had the British with their backs to Cairo threatening the lifeline of the British Empire. Our successes in the Coral Sea and at Midway and the repulse of the Japanese in the Aleutians had not prevented the Japanese from carving out a position of control of a vast empire, from which they threatened India, Australia and our own Pacific position. A year ago the U. S.'s ability to transport its power in supplies, munitions, and troops across the Atlantic was being challenged by submarines which in a single month had sunk 700,-000 700,-000 tons of shipping. July 1, 1943, finds the United States Army and Navy united against the Axis powers in purpose pur-pose and in operation, a unity shared when the occasion demands de-mands by the British Commonwealth Common-wealth of Nations, the Chinese, Dutch, French, and other fighting fight-ing elements among our friends and supporters. Across the Atlantic At-lantic the enemy had been driven from North Africa, and Europe has been encircled by a constantly constant-ly growing military power. The Russian Army, engaging - two-thirds two-thirds of the German ground forces and one-third of the German Ger-man air fleet in deadly and exhausting ex-hausting combat, has dispelled the legend of the invincibility of the German Panzer divisions. The British Isles are stronger than ever before and a new France is arising from the ashes of 1940. Strategically the enemy .in Europe has been re duced . to the defensive and the blocKaae is complete. In the Pacific the laoSe are being steadily gSe or rather eliminated from their conquered territory. The Aleutians are about to be cleared of all tracks and traces of the enemy. In the south and south-wpst south-wpst Pacific two facts are plainly evident to the Japanese command com-mand as well as to the wor Id large: Our progress may seem , t is steady and deter- S .noaTling Problem for the an appaums j rt whatever enemy high an from , satisfaction they ma ' tneir the fanatical sacriMe enemy is sed power of the wnile thM hSs if rapidly in-United in-United Nations is r v gach creasing, more rapi my can be succeeding month, m re ,but one result and source we possess houf rf ployed to ; hasten tn sacrifice |