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...communiqués admitted that stiff resistance was encountered, admitted that at least one U.S. cruiser was sunk, two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport damaged. But they announced that initial surprise had been achieved, that many enemy planes had been downed and surface vessels put out of action...
...proved costly, that was only to be expected. Said a Navy communiqué: "It should be understood that the operation now under way is one of the most complicated and difficult in warfare. Considerable losses, such as are inherent in any offensive operation, must be expected as the price to be paid for . . . the attainment of far-reaching results...
...perhaps the test simply proved that the Navy's month-and-a-half-old communiqué on Alaska was not news...
Thus the Navy, in a profit-&-loss communiqué last week, summed the Jap's accomplishments in six weeks of Alaskan warfare. To the U.S. it was some reassurance that things had not gone worse on a front from which news had come chiefly in complaints about the weather that sounded suspiciously like alibis. But still unanswered, even by implication, were such questions as: 1) Can the Japs be dislodged soon? 2) Is Alaska strong enough to withstand an invasion...
...defensive hatred, and the Red Army is a defensive army, which has never yet been outstandingly successful on the offensive and is now learning whether defense can be enough. It is to that hatred that Moscow's communiqués appeal, forever stressing the killing of Germans, the destruction of German tanks, guns, planes. These communiqués sometimes seem to be deliberately deceptive, recounting the deaths of a few hundred Germans in battalion engagements, when great fronts are falling. But for the Russians it is not deception; it is the feeding of the Russian conviction which a Moscow...