COST OF WAR IN LIVES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1945, Page 7

COST OF WAR IN LIVES

Allied Casualties

LONDON, June 6. The total number of Allied ground casualties on the Western Front from D Day to YE Day was announced at SHAEF today.

The combined British and Canadian casualties for the 337 days of fighting were 184,512—39,599 killed, 126,545 wounded, and 18,368 missing. The United States casualties for the same period were 514,534, of whom 89,477 were killed, 367,180 were wounded, and 57,877 are French casualties total 61,247, of whom 11,080 were killed. Polish casualties were 5593, or whom 1189 were killed. Czechoslovakia lost 170 men killed in action, the Belgians 55, and the Dutch 20.

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The "Daily Telegraph" describes the speech as mild, and asks, "What makes an industry ripe for conversion into public services?" It says that the Socialist answer seems to be either that it is so bad that bureaucracy could not make it worse, or so good that even a bureaucracy could not ruin it. The "Daily Express" describes Mr. Attlee as the decoy duck of Socialism and declares there is no freedom under Socialism except such "freedom' as is tolerated by the State for i\p own purposes, and it can be taken away by a stroke of the pen. The "Daily Express" declares that in the whole of Mr. Attlee's speech there was not one constructive suggestion of how the Socialists propose to increase the wealth or wellbeing or leisure of the people. The "Daily Mail" says that Mr. Attlee avoided a full and frank explanation of his policy of nationalisation, and suggests that he should strive to be more explicit when such far-reaching issues are in question. It declares that before Britain embarks on such a drastic experiment the people should have facts and figures'concerning nationalisation of industries elsewhere. "The Socialists do not supply them because they know that wherever this expedient has been tried it has failed," it says.