STRATEGY IN ITALY
Service Journal Critical WASHINGTON, April 4. The rebuff suffered by the Allies at Cassino was the climax of over-all .bad strategy, says the authoritative Army and Navy Journal. “Southern Italy has not only provided us with lessons, but furnished the Germans with them also,” it says. “To end recriminations the responsible officers should be required to collaborate more efficiently or be replaced.” Cassino is but one of several phases of the Italian campaign which will impair Anglo-American prestige in the Balkans, it adds. “If we had invaded southern France,when the Germans were still trying to make it impregnable, or ventured into the upper Adriatic to make contact with Marshal Tito’s forces, it is insisted by critics of the strategy in Italy that a radically different situation would exist,” says the journal. It declares that the Anzio beach-head operation represented' the old story of too little, too late, but even when surprise was achieved the troops were concentrated on consolidating the beach-head instead of .driving inland.
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Southland Times, Issue 25335, 11 April 1944, Page 6
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