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PAGE TWO THE DAILY- ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY/N, C. .VICTORY EDITION £ HITLER (Continued from page 1) was smashed by the RAF Bomber Command before port. Bat tle of it could Africa leave FDR, Winnie, Joe, Outbattied Adolf and Duce In Battle of Personalities in World’s Worst War The narred Africa really in the tragic event of Ju- ly 3, 1940, when the British at tacked the French fleet at Mars- Ei-Kebir to prevent Warships of their former allies from falling into enemy hands. 1 By WILLIAM GLOVER This has been a personalized war in Europe. Through the long years leading * to the struggle and the bloody Six times the battle swept back months of battle, the destiny of , all creation has rested in the and. forth across the rytool North |lands of a ha]f dozen leaders of Africa, but in the port the Ger.- nations. mans could not win Because They did not control the Mediterranean. The Italian fleet soon was driven into hiding. Marshal Rudolto Graziana be gan an attack oh Egypt, on Aug ust 6, 1940, .sihirdt’aneously with an invasion of British Somaliland. He get no farther/than Sidi Bar- rani, where the British under Wa- veii started a' lightning comeback in December which reached be yond Bengasi. Bitt the British fell hack even faster in the spring when they were forced to send troops to Greece, Again in No vember, 1941, the British launched an offensive which relieved To bruk shortly before the last Ital ian stronghold in Ethiopia sur rendered. Not long thereafter came Pearl Harbor, arid Hitler declared war on the United Stales. Ills ultimate extirpation began, to loom on the horizon then, for he had turned the spigot which • was to produce a flood of Allied war materiel and men. 7.', Loss of Tobruk Big . Blow , But there still were black days in store for the Allies, and Sun day, June 21, 1942, ilagks with blackest of them all. [ Gn that day' Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa Corps took To bruk in a surprise thrust which carried them tobwithm 60, rhiles of Alexandria. A juiiftipn of Ger man and Japanese forces on the shores of the Indian Ocean was threatened. The Germans were preparing the summer offensive which might break the Soviet Un ion and which was to take them from Kharkov to Stalingrad. The Allies had lost Singapore, the Philippines, Burma, the Dutch East Indies and parts of the A leu tians. Australia still was men aced, despite two Japanese air- sea defeats in the Coral Sea and at Midway In May and June. Air, Tank Forces Turn Tide Almost the brightest spot in the Allied picture was that only three weeks before the British had car ried out their first 1,000-bomber raid against Cologne. Air and tank forces rushed to Africa eventually turned the tide, permitting Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s Eighth Army to score its great victory at El Ala- mein in Egypt on Oct. 23, 1942, and begin its march to meet the American and British forces of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower which landed in Morocco and Algeria on Nov. 7. Trapped on Cap Bon in Tuni sia, the Germans and Italians fi nally surrendered on May 12, 1943, ending the Battle of Africa, and the stage was set for the in- vasion of Italy. Axis in Tunisia were placed Italy casualties at 341,000. The Allies’ invasion of Europe ••"- “ r attack on really began with the Sicily by Gen. Eisenhower’s Brit ish and American forces on July 10, 1943. Fifteen days later Mus solini was ousted in Rome-the first serious break in the Axis structure. Striking swiftly on Sept. 3, aft er completion of a 38-day -cani- paign ery’s Italy. Mark below battle lished in Sicily, Gen. Montgom- troops invaded the toe of The Fifth Army of Gen. W Clark landed at Salerno Naples and after a blood with the Germans, estab- a beachhead six days later, almost simultaneously with an nouncement of the surrender of the government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio which had succeeded Mussolini. The first of the big three in the Axis had been knock ed out. of the war. Through a bitter winter cam paign, the Americans and their Allies made but. slow progress from Naples, fought the bloody battle of Cassino, established the beachhead at Anzio below Rome and finally on May 11 launched the offensive which carried them io Rome on June 4. The Palazzo Venezia where Mussolini’s bal cony stands was turned into a museum. Invasion Two days after the first fall of an Axis capital, the greatest am phibious force of all time touched land in Normandy. The D-Day for which American factories had been turning out weapons since Dec. 7, 1941, had dawned. Untried American divisions quickly proved they could beat Hitler’s best veterans. Despite the strength of the Germans’ Atlantic Wall, the invasion stuck. The suits were not long showing Berlin. re in COMMENTS (Continued from page 4.) reverent thanksgiving for divine help, with added thankfulness for the high leadership, which with the heroism of our sons, made victory possible. We must be just and firm just to a people pitiful- ly misguided and tragically tempted, firm with its criminal leaders. World War IL came not i because of the Versailles Peace 1 Treaty, which was of the essence of forbearance, but because of the unwisdom of imagining that we could keep peace within and with out our frontier. 1 ; by refraining from contact With the nations.! We have learned the lesson: our children must not again pay the price. FEAST WITH A PURPOSE The American Indian of the northwest gave potlatches, or huge feasts, to make a name for himself, to,pay his debts, to out rank a marriage riyal, or to an nounce that he felt hear death, and so to divide his property. •W?'' ■ ia®r.". has rested Trie dominant figures- Roose- ive.lt, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler and 1 Mussolini— are “men of the hour,” . untouched by royal blood. And while World War II has been a struggle of entire peoples, historians probably will ponder the impact of the leaders’ perso nalities upon events. Each leader,' too, has displayed to marked de gree the national characteristics' of his state or its form of gov ernment. The Sinister and the Rosy First of the dictators was stri dent, pompous, braggart Musso lini. His stature shrank as that of his pupil, sinister Adolf Hitler, in creased. Thwarted, overweening in ambition, fanatical, brutal, the Fuehrer played upon the ingrain- ed militarism of his people, stinging from defeat. United Nations leadership the European conflict was in still for the j The Leaders Who Won hands of a trio of different stamp. Churchill, “the rosy little man,” a master of rhetoric, looks like John Bull and •clinched fame by carrying the torch for the British Empire through the dark days of 1940-'41. Russia's fate was en trusted to Joseph Stalin, inscrut able master player in the interna tional poker game of diplomacy, who gained time by siding with the Nazis at. first, who let the world think Russia could not fight victoriously, and who drew Hitler onto a battlefield of death. The United States was led by Roosevelt, a phrasemaker himself,' a master of timing and a leader so popular he could ask and get for the first time in history a third Presidential term. He not only helped a peace-loving, com- WINSTON CHURCHILL placent country reach but insisted on being military head of the well as the political. war tempt), in fact the Nation, as The Might Have Been What has been the effect these personalities on events? of At Munich Hitler pulled a gun on the Allied Leaders of 1938, Chamberlain and Daladier. They quailed, and Mussolini who had been called in to play the role of interlocutor, decided history by putting his chips with Hitler, whom he had bluffed in similar fashion on the matter of Austria’s freedom scarcely way. Stalin, showed in 1934. Churchill would have been bluffed that ignored at Munich, his disappointment. one trusted the U.S.S.R., he have thought, and the deed have played a part in the Russian policy, shifting and WE'LL MAKE OUR PRESENTS FELT like "ci bat over the head! ;^ with bullets, bombs and torpedoes from every direction! Tv. until the "Hon.'^ 'Japs learn the meaning of justice to the tune of Unconditional Surrender!) With that as our goal, there's no room for a let-down here at home. Get in with everything you've got.!; conserve, salvage! Buy More War Bonds! . . . for Victory! R. C. ABBOTT 308 Front St Phone 383 No must must later enig- After the almost incredible dirty dealing innocent peoples have suffered at the hands of the Japs, the Yanks are coming through for the pay-off! And that means; “dead or alive”... unconditional surrender! Help by backing our boys every way you can. The very lives of our men depend on the War Bonds you buy! Geo. A. Cox, Tailor WANTED FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT JOSEF STALIN' DEAD or ALIVE matic as it seemed to the outside world. Il Duce, when the showdown came in September, 1939, showed his inherent weakness by pulling aside as a non-belligerent, then found outlet for his braggadocio in May, 1940, by jumping on France when he thought the bat tle was over. His action resulted in Roosevelt’s tide-changing “stab in the back” speech one day la ter. The Atlantic Charter Personalities were transcendent when in 1941 the Anglo-American leaders held the first of their get- togethers and drew up the Atlan tic Charter. With it, generalized as it was, the two astute leaders silenced many skeptics of Allied war motives. The later meetings of the lead ers prove how their dominating beliefs and characteristics belit tled the minor currents in the stream of conflict. In the later days of the war, as the psyches of Roosevelt, Church ill and Stalin came into perma nent dominance over the totter ing personalities of Mussolini and Hitler, individual differences (See LEADERS page 6) Til THOSE WHO OWE'ALL Here they lie. Guard them well with your life, sentry, even as they guarded that for which we are fight ¬ ing, with their own Peace is theirs. Let iurhed, sentry, even they died to secure it not he dis- as the for all kind shall—once won—he peace inan- undis- inched in future years hy murder- ous marauders such as we have known And we who live let us do more than how our heads in rever- ence. It is for us to make any sacri fice to quicken Victory. THE FIRST & CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 501 E. MAIN ST. — PHONES 46—144 STILL AT LARGE: One of the world's most danger- ^ ■ A ous gangsters/guilty of the most heinous crimes jnall^history.^ Hasfrecord Tof/having X ravished / ■ women and children: of having tortured civilians and men in uniform/ leaving them to languish in filthy .prisons or to die in open fields/ Has seized [lands to which he has not the slightest claim. Has resisted every opportunity to deal honestly with other nations.* The last of the leaders of the orig inal Axis mob of gangsters/ he is a menace to society. Is reputed^ to/always be protected by (powerful mechanized equipmentland must there fore be approached with full awareness of his /violence/ and protection against his viciousness. REWARD TO THE_ NATIONS, responsible/for bringing this [criminal tojustice? DEAD OR ALIVE/ will be paid [Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom from Want, to the amount of a lifetime of peace/and security! Byrum Implement & Truck Co. Authorized Dealer for McCormick-Deering Machines — Formal! tractors & International Motor Trucks in Entire Albemarle Area 211-215 N. WATER ST. — ELIZ. CITY, N. C. — PHONE 15 15 sfflmssBKSEMEa^s itt fa£Mm»s5£3s^ icaKgsi^a^ aHtumaKSaaasi^ia^
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