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This week the pent-up bolt of Allied power struck. A thunderous preparation by 1,000 bombing planes shook the earth for miles around a new sector northeast of Aachen. Behind the bombardment - and a rolling barrage by 10-inch guns - the battle-seasoned U.S. First hurdled a small river, moved forward toward Cologne. The Germans backed stubbornly, foot by foot, before them...
...flood of pent-up Chinese criticism loosed by the recent relaxation of Government censorship, one newspaper and its editor have been outstanding. The newspaper is China's leading independent, Chungking's Ta Rung Pao. Its brilliant, self-educated editor is slight, bespectacled Wang Yun-sheng. Recent excerpts from his hard-hitting editorials...
...Germans were heavily fortified in depth, but the sudden release of pent-up Soviet power was overwhelming. German Commentator Ernest von Hammer described "masses of tanks and fighter-bombers on a scale never seen before during the entire Russian campaign." Red sappers advancing toward the Pronya River behind a wall of artillery fire found pulverized German bodies in shredded uniforms, said that they "looked as if they had suffered death several times...
Fortunately, thinks Maier, German frustration is likely to lead to its own partial cure. As bombing and invasion intensify the German people's frustration and reduce their capacity for external aggression, Maier predicts that they will turn their pent-up fury on their own leaders, kill Hitler and other conspicuous Nazis. If they do not thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders...
...Berlin, in Moscow, in London, in freed Rome, military men calculated the great fact of one continental war on three fronts; the fact which had ever spelled defeat to German strategists. They measured the pent-up might of the Russian hosts. They tried to analyze the first tremors in the uncertain Balkans, in what was left of German Italy, on those coasts of France and the Lowlands which were yet to be invaded, but certainly were affected by stresses placed on German arms and transport in the west...