WINNING THE WAR.
PLACE OF ITALIAN CAMPAIGN. “NO SHORT CUT TO GERMANY” (Rec. 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 29. ‘‘There is no short cut to Germany until we beat the Germans. The infantrymen in Italy are tvinning the war as much as any man on the western front,” declared Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, interviewed by the American Army newspaper “Stars and Stiipes.” He pointed out that the Italian campaign fitted into the war strategy. Sir IlarokV Alexander said: The offensives do not start because Marshal Stalin, General Eisenhower, or we in Italy want the attack. It works like a huge team. The Germans (he said), preferred to fight on other people’s soil rather than their own. The Germans had better possibilities in the Po valley for a winter offensive. The enemy in Italy had'bfeen forced to use some of his finest divisions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 43, 30 November 1944, Page 5
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