“FINAL BLOW AT GERMANY ABOUT TO FALL”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 61, 7 December 1943, Page 5

“FINAL BLOW AT GERMANY ABOUT TO FALL”

Three Leaders Showed High Spirits

LONDON, December 5

“Never before in the whole course of the war have the Allied war leaders shown such complete confidence in the operations to come against Germany as that revealed in the joint Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill communique,” says the Exchange Telegraph agency’s correspondent. “Their plans have been concerted. The final Allied blow against Germany is about to fall. Any slender hopes Hitler and his gangsters may have had that the Moscow talks failed, that Marshal Stalin had thrown a spanner into the works, that there was dissension in the Allied ranks, has been smashed by the fact that Marshal Stalin’s name appears on the most vital communique that has ever been issued by the three great allies. The communique in itself, is a body-blow against the rapidly-crumbling Gem war machine.

“The three greatest Alt.-. leaders, surrounded 'by their miltiary experts and political advisers, drew up blueprints not only for the final terrific assault on- Germany but also for the peace to come. It seems incredible that such vital decisions could ibe taken and such tremendous plans made with such, speed. It reveals one vital \ thing—the complete understanding existing among the combined Allied chiefs of staff. All the little loose ends have been tied up.

“The world Press correspondents were not allowed to go to Teheran, but all officials said the same thing, namely : Never has there been such high spirits and optimism and such complete confidence as was displayed from the start of the conference to the end by the three leaders. They made plain by their demeanour that there is now no chance of major reverses and that the war in Europe is nearing its end.”