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...greater part of the land fighting in the Pacific last week was being done by the Australians. Mostly they inched forward in bitter, forgotten little battles against a scattered but formidable array of Japs (best conservative guesstimate: 136,000-see map) bypassed in the westward sweep of the main battle. But the Aussies were punching ahead on new battlegrounds...
...Philippines; the Thirteenth, now commanded by a smart, 38-year-old pilot, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith, which started in the Solomons, shifted to New Guinea, recently covered the Australian landings on Borneo; and the Seventh, veteran Central Pacific outfit which started in Hawaii and worked its way westward to Okinawa. The Seventh's commander: Brigadier General Thomas D. White...
...Germany a horse-drawn wagon crawled slowly westward. Three ragged men and a woman sang with sad irony: "Nie rzucim ziemi skqd nasz rod, nie damy pogrzesc mowy" ("We shall never leave oar fathers' land, we shall never let the Polish language...
...Francisco, Navy Secretary James Forrestal held a planning session with Fleet Admirals King and Nimitz. Also present was shy, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, commander of the Fifth Fleet, which has conducted most big Pacific amphibious operations in the sweep westward from Tarawa...
...report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said he, "the face of America turns westward. . . . The objective has been clearly established by President Truman: 'The primary task facing the nation today is to win the war in Japan -to win it as quickly as possible.' " Unczarlike Czar. The man who drew this picture of the U.S. in transition was a man of long experience...