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"one sparrow does not make a summer"
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destroying those armies will it be possible to move on to the east ... toward the Rhine and the Ruhr River valleys, into the heart of the militaristic German people.
If we jump quickly to the Russian front we find the German stoutly defending the Polish bastion of Warsaw. The Soviets are said to have breached the German lines northeast of the capital tonight but the fighting is severe. The Germans are still protecting with more than a modicum of strength and tenacity, the line of the Vistula River. This water obstacle, in some places, has been hurdled by the Russian armies, but there appears to be little doubt this evening that the German is capable of fearful resistance as he is slowly but surely being crowded to the west, back onto his own soil, whence he loosed his war machine three years and two months ago.
Dealing with the question of German morale, we have nothing to prove that it has been lowered to such a point that collapse is imminent. The revolt against Adolph Hitler came from German army officers who were not willing to fight to the end . . . men who were determined, if they could, to salvage enough from the wreckage of the German war machine so that a rebuilding of that machine could be effected after the war. On the Itahan front, the Germans in their Gothic line are entrenched and prepared to fight on in furious combat. After the Gothic line is the line of the River Po. Certainly not a situation to engender the feeling that col
lapse is going to come overnight, or even in a matter of weeks.
There is no reason to believe tonight anything other than Dwight Eisenhower's words that one sparrow does not make a summer and that one major victory does not mean the defeat of all of the armed forces of the Third German Reich.
Last week Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, issued a statement which has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by millions of • persons in the United States. Admiral Nimitz; did not declare that Japan could be defeated without an invasion of Japanese home soil. The admiral thought that there was a possibility that such a defeat could be inflicted, but he said we must be prepared to carry out that invasion. Developments, in other words, would occur which would make such an invasion necessary. But in any event, it was measured judgment that occupation of the Jap's home islands would be necessary to win the peace. Yet, the length and breadth of the United States the admiral is quoted on the street as saying that invasion of Japan won't be necessary. His qualifying statements have gone with the wind . . . the halcyon breeze that blows so gently so as not to disturb the thoughts of those who dwell in a never-never land.
The two wars which we fight, against Germany in Europe and against Japan in the Pacific, (particularly the one against Japan) are struggles which will call forth the greatest effort which we have ex