WAR NOT YET WON

Evening Star, Issue 25300, 7 October 1944, Page 8

WAR NOT YET WON

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S WARNING ENEMY RESISTANCE DETERMINED AS EVER WASHINGTON, October 6. ' President Eoosevelt, in his second election campaign speech, said: " It is my plain duty to reiterate that this war for the preservation of our civilisation is not yet won. Our forces and those of our Allies are steadily and relentlessly carrying the attack to the e*emy. The Allied %rmies under General Eisenhower have waged during the last four months one of the most brilliant campaigns in military history, which has carried us from the beaches of Normandy and Southern France into the frontiers of Germany " Our naval task forces in the Pacific have advanced to attack the Japanese more than 5,000 miles to the west of Pearl Harbour, but German and Japanese resistance remains as determined and fanatical as ever. The guns of Hitler's Gestapo are silencing those German officers -with sense enough to know that every day the fighting continues means that much more ruin and destruction of their beaten country. "We shall have to fight our way across the Rhine. We may have to fight every inch of the way to Berlin, but we Americans and our British, Russian, French, and Polish Allies—all the massed forces of the United Nations—will not stop short of out final goal. We have seen our civilisation in deadly peril, and we have successfully met the challenge, due to the steadfastness of our Allies,, to the aid we have been able to give them, and to the unprecedented out pouring of American man power, productivity, and ingenuity, and the magnificent courage and enterprise of our fighting men and military leadership. " What is now being won in battle must not be lost by lack of vision or faith, or fey division among ourselves or our Allies. We must and will continue to be united with out Allies in a powerful world organisation which is ready and able to keep the peace, if necessary by force. We owe it to our posterity, to our heritage of freedom, and to our' God to devote the rest of our lives and alt our capabilities to the building of a solid, durable structure of world peace." Saying that' he foresaw much hard fighting yet in Europe, the Secretary of War, Mr H. L. Stimson, told a Press conference that, contrary to expectations, the enemy had been able to form a continuous defensive line along his borders. _ He was also sufficiently successful in raising additional recruits, and rehabilitating and withdrawing armies to muster strength for •the initial defence of the West Wall. ,' Mr Stimson added that the Germans' resistance had been vigorous and their organisation and discipline had so far 'held firm. He urged public, co-opera-tion in concealing from the enemy the nature and destination of troop movements in connection with the forthcoming huge transfer of troops from Europe •to Asia. He deplored the public trend towards letting down the precautions for guarding military information and stressed that this would prove harmful ;to security unless it was checked.