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Friday, July 19, 1946
EISENHOWER REPORT
GENERAL EISENHOWER’S report to the combined
chiefs of staff on the decisive and concluding phas
es of the European war, now released by the war de
partment for public reading and appraisal, sets the re
cord straight on a number of things—including the
claims advanced in behalf of Soviet Russia as the sole
architect of the Allied victory.
It has been the persistent—and too persuasive—ha
bit of the American advocates of Russian appeasment
since the end of the war to argue that, whatever moral
fault might be found in Russia’s postwar policies, it
had to be remembered that but for Russia we would
have lost the war.
This has always seemed a preposterous claim to the
American people, knowing as they did the manner in
which the victory was actually achieved in Western
Europe but the Allied forces of which the American
forces were the principal part and of which the Rus
sian forces were no part whatever.
The Eisenhower report exposes it as a completely
and deliberately fraudulent claim.
General Eisenhower discloses that far from being
the sole or even the principal architect of European
victory, Russia was in fact an obstruction and an im
pediment to victory throughout most of the critical
stage of the campaign in the West.
It will be recalled that the first American landings
were made on the Normandy coast in June of 1944.
It was of vital importance to General Eisenhower to
know at that time, and throughout the ensuing cam
paign, the full details of the concurrent and contem
plated Russian campaign in the East—because only
with that knowledge could he accurately estimate the
strength of the German resistance he would encounter
and dispose his forces advantageously.
Nevertheless, General Eisenhower did not have that
information, and he was compelled to conduct his cam
paign in the West without it for nearly seven months.
“Up to the end of 1944,” he now reports, “I had
received no information on matters affecting the Rus
sian grand strategy, although I had expressed my
willingness to afford any such information concerning
my own overall plans as the Red army might desire.”
With the final blow against Nazi Germany in pros
pect, continued General Eisenhower, “a closer coordi
nation with the Russian high command and mutual un
derstanding of our respective plans became essential.”
but in spite of this plain fact:
“The only link between my headquarters and that
at Marshal Stalin was through the medium of the Al
lied military mission in Moscow, and it appeared moat
difficult to learn of Soviet intentions.”
It was not until the last week of the following De
cember that General Eisenhower, after contending for
seven months with “the difficulty with which I was
faced in attempting to evolve plans while still ignorant
of the Russian intentions,” succeeder in breaking down
this wall of Russian silence.
Not until after Christmas, he recounts, did Presi
dent Roosevelt secure “from Marshal Stalin his agree
ment to receive our representative in order to discuss
the correlation of our respective efforts in the forth
coming spring.”
Not until the following January did the Eisenhower
staff receive from Stalin “a full explanation” of the
plans for the Russian offensive.
In the meantime, while compelled to fight in com
plete blindness as far as the Russian campaign in the
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East was concerned, the American and British forces
so overwhelmingly defeated the Germans that, as Gen
eral Eisenhower reports, “the war was won before the
Rhine was crossed.”
Thus, the American people at last have a full refu
tation of the preposterous and fraudulent claim that
Russia carried the burden of the war, and that appeas
ment of Russia now and henceforth is consequently
our right and our obligation.
(Seattle Post Intelligencer)
Arctic Has An Empire
The vital importance of
uranium in a suddenly at
om-conscious world as well
as the charting of the world
airways of tomorrow is cen
tering on the last frontier
of this continent — Can
ada's northwest territories.
The Canadian and Unit
ed States governments are
carrying out experiments
to provide joint defense
measures for the Arctic re
gions, Both air and
ground forces now are go
ing into this vast, almost
uncharted area to deter
mine what tomorrow will
be like there if it becomes
as important to science and
aviation as it now appears
certain to.
According to the Nation
al Geographic Society
which knows all about such
unknown places, this great
expanse extends from Baf
fin Bay and Davis Strait
on the Atlantic to the Yu
kon, which borders Alaska
on the west. Incidently,
the area also includes Yel
lowknife, scene of Cana
da’s latest gold boom. On
the north is the Arctic oc
ean, with Canada’s Frank
lin district, a jumble of is
lands. On the south are
British Columbia, Alberta,
and Saskatchewan.
In this million square
I miles of land and water
live oetween 11,000 and
12,000 persons, mostly In
dians and Eskimos. Aside
from trading posts, mis
sions, police barracks, and
a very few native villages,
there are no centers of pop
ulation. ^
Names you may come to
I know are Mackenzie, Stik
ine', Ogilvie and Richard
son which are the mount
ain ranges in the west that
level off into an extension
of our own great plains.
To the east these plains
become the great treeless
Laurentian upland, brok
en by the vast Hudson Bay
which dips all the way
! down into Ottowa arlK
i Quebec.
Lakes (Great Bear Lake
is bigger than Massachu
setts) and rivers are all
over the place, but the^e
are no railroads or high
ways. Midwinter average
temperatures about 20 de
grees below zero. In the
summer the average tem
perature is somewhere a
round 50 degrees.
In addition to uranium
the area has radium depos
its find silver, gold, leatf
zinc an<) copper. The^
are also some oil and tim
ber but so far furs have
been the most important
export. Canada has be