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...Germany's defenses in southeastern Europe will be disrupted by the loss of the Italian Army. Italian troops, weak in battle, nevertheless do garrison duty in guerrilla-torn Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete. Algiers heard that Marshal Badoglio had ordered the withdrawal of 22 divisions from garrison duty. If this was true, the Germans will have to garrison these countries, or else abandon them. The German chances of holding the Balkans against their own heartened rebels, much less against invasion, will be lessened. Said A.P. Correspondent Wesley Gallagher, recently returned from Allied Headquarters in Algiers: "If Italy sues for peace...
Attack on the Beach. While Ike Eisenhower caught his brief nap, war broke loose on the southeastern shores of Sicily. First a blistering wave of air power flicked over the elected zones. Then the destroyers stood in from the sea and began a graceful, weaving parade offshore, their guns shooting tongues of flame at enemy pillboxes and strong points on land. Farther out battleships lobbed their heavy shells in high-arc interdictory fire to smash highways and crossroads deeper in the invasion area...
...vital and active Balkan policy federating the southeastern European states, welding them into a political unit which would serve Turkey for defensive purposes...
Rome and Berlin radio broadcasters last week worked overtime giving news of Allied preparations in the Middle East for a drive toward southeastern Europe. Germany reported that Allied troops were massing in Syria. Italy reported at least one large convoy en route through the eastern Mediterranean to the Middle East. Berlin reported an order of the day by Iraq's Premier General Nuri Pasha es-Said to his troops saying that active service was approaching. Warned the Rome radio: "Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier of Turkey...
...Germany Ready? In the Balkans Germany is hurrying to complete defense lines against an expected Allied onslaught. The Germans have three major defense lines in southeastern Europe. One line starts on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, curves south along the ragged border of Turkey to Alexandroupolis and Salonika, then cuts across Greece to Corfu and the Adriatic Sea. The second starts at the mouth of the Danube, runs up to Vienna and the Alps. The third follows the Danube to Vienna, then runs along the northern spur of the Carpathians to the main German defense lines in Poland...