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Another Konev column plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...
Perfect Timing. The timing of this move was as perfect as the Kremlin's recognition of its puppet Polish Government, 24 hours before the Red Army offensive into the Reich. The Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut was specific about the meaning of the move. Said he to Allied correspondents: "On Polish soil there should be a Polish administration regardless of the opinions that may be expressed at the international [Big Three] conference''. He added that he did not believe that any of the Allies "will be willing to interfere." (This week the Big Three agreed...
...hundred thousand of the 2,000,000 French war prisoners and deportees in the Reich had been freed by the Red Army...
...question-what to do with Germany?-Joseph Stalin had an ace which Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt could only look at and admire. They had nothing like it: a complete organization of German civilians and army officers, known to the German people and ready to move into the conquered Reich if Stalin so wills...
...Grew's opposite number in Britain, Richard Kidston Law, last week explained British policy to the House of Commons: No. 1 war criminals like Hitler and Mussolini should be directly disposed of by the Allies; offenses committed by lesser Germans against Jews and other nationals of the Reich should not be considered "war crimes," but nevertheless should be punished by the government to be set up by the Allies in Germany...