ADVANTAGE TO U.S.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 5

ADVANTAGE TO U.S.

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<Rec. IQ/a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 1. ■Tb/b "New York Herald Tribune," editorially commenting on the, Solomons, says: "The first round which ended last Monday ferns to have been & tactical draw, bt the strategic advantage appears lie with the Americans whose nyers from ships, from the island, and from Australia incessantly pounded the Japanese bases and fleets. The Japanese ships returned to their bases, where they met with a warm welcome from Genera! Mac Arthur's men, but we gained just a breathing spell. "The danger is not yet dissipated, and the situation of our small force on Guadalcanal still is precarious. This respite may alter the impression that the Solomons campaign was entered upqfti in the light-hearted, ignorant-spfirit- of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. On the contrary, the campaign was a fundamentally courageous effort to attain a worth-while, objective.

"The campaign will entail further losses, and perhaps errors, but the Japanese are not infallible and the Americans will do the job if they receive leadership worthy of the imagination which conceived the original plan..