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Liberation of Paris
Ends Battle of France
By Max Werner
((~opylqght 1.~J44, by Field i'ublication,~)
Paris is France. The liberation of
the Frenc, h capital by the French
Forces of the Interior is the great-
e.st political and emotional event
of the war in the West. Bur it is
a military fact of equal importance.
It means that the battle of France
is virtually won, and that the inva-
sion of Crermany fz'om the West is
about to begin.
Paris is the strategic key posi-
tion of France, the military base
and the communication center for
the entire country. Paris was even
more important for German de-
fense in France than it was for
French defense in 1940.
The territ~)ry now held hy the
Wehrmacht to the north and to the
east of Paris is too small to serve
as a minterla~,c~ foc the retreating
German Army. And the French ter-
ritory the Wehrmacht holds to the
west and to the south of Paris is a
tera'iblel lability. The German troops
in these regions are immobilized,
for Paris was the turntable of their
meter, having lost the central de-
fensive position in France.
Finally, it will be impossible for
the Wehrmaeht to maintain a de-
fensive fron~ in southern France
without Paris as a base. With the
main German forces in France flee-
ing toward Lorraine and the Bel-
gian frontier, the defense of the
French Mec~iterranean coasts is
both senseless and impracticable.
The defeat of Paris implies the
Wehrmacht's defeat in the French
south. The interrelation of both
Allied fronts in Fra,~ce is estab-
lished, and, working, and our forces
in southern France can strike
northward.
I witnessed the evacuation of
Paris and, the defeat of France in
1940. It was clear to me--as it
should have been to every military
observer--that the loss of Paris by
the French would lead to the col-
lapse of all France's defense.
Befween the fall of Paris and. the
capitulation at Bordeaux some
newspapers in southern Fran£~e
still claimed' that "Paris is not
entire eastbound communications France," and ideas were suggest-
system connected w~th Germany
• " l ec~ that the encircled Maginot Line
U. S:-British tanks and planesi be supplied by air. This time the
move 1aster than me German in- Nazis may claim that "Paris is not
fa~l~Y °nttrhen?a~chi °rtoG~esrcmaan[France."
m'li ary : " . y'ng "P~'I And yet the war of the West
from soumwestern anc~ cen~rat ....... '
......... ] Will oeveiop In aecoroance wlth
~rance The malor part oI mat t~er l
' ~ ...... :, strategic rules even more implaca-
man army . oI occupatmn s tin ble than those the evct~ts of 1940
stun ci,ing between the mvasmn I
........ followed.. Except for tts northeast-
Ironts m normern ann soumern ern coastal group, the German Ar-
France is doomed:
With the capture of Paris, the U.
S.-British armies have definitely
outflanke8 the main, the strongest
sector of the Atlantic Wall between
Le Havre and Rotterdam. The mas-
sive system of German coastal for-:
tifications with all its guns and
concrete works is now completely
useless. It con defend nothing and
prevent nothing.
The similiarity ,o the oatflm~,king
of the Maginot5 Line in May 1940, is
striking. The Atlantic Wall, just as
the Maginot Line, turned out to be
only an expensive, complicated toy,
overrun and outplanned by modern
mobile war. Now the U. S.-British
armies will operate in the rear of
the Atlantic Wall and menace its
garrisons with encirclements.
Paris is the key to all the coasts
of France. The Allied armies can
~ow take possession ol the French
coasts from within, striking from
the strategic center of the country,
while the Wehrmacht cannot cling
to the coastal defenses on its pert-
my in France is stricken by de-
mobilization and disintegration.
Now that Paris has fallen the
Wehrmaeht can not be regrouped
and controlled. It will also be. har-
assed by the French Forces of the
Interior. They will strike innum-
erable blows against the rear of the
German troops retreati~g in dis-
order.
The strategic situation in the en-
tire western theater of war is up-
set. The Wehrmacht no longer Las
a central operational base in
France. Its defense in the West now
rests on bases in northern Italy,
western Germany and Belgium.
The course of the battle will now
permit the speedy liberation of
French territory by incessant blows
in a war of movement• But in a mil-
itary sense the battle now going on
is no longer for the liberation of
France, but for the domination of
the western approaches to Ger-
many. Should the Wehrmacht still
be able to try another defense
:th~n it can stand only on a line
F. F. I. TROOPS CAPTURE NAZI
$CAI~ITItY CLAD F. F. I. soldiers march a captured Nazi along a ~reet
of Montneyan, mouthera France. Signal Corps photo. (International)
F VIOUS FLIER AND AC;REsS BRi-DE
AIR FORCE Lt Thomu D. Harmon, former University of Michigan All-
America football player, and his actress bride, FAyse Knox, are shown
after their marriage in St. MinT's student chapel at Michigan University,
Detroit. The bride wore a gown of white silk, made from chute Harmon
used when hll ~ (~imh~l in China last October. (ll~,f.n~tonol)
?
GOLDEN VALLEY NEtAN
I of year
lying as far eastward as Strasbourgihave to crush the center link to 1,478 million busl~e]s, some-I June. This would be above 'he t7
--Reims--Abbeville. possible German defense in cast-(what more than 1,453 million bu.I million acres actually planted for
Our aim in the West is the liqui-i ez'n France around Reims. B~sedt
dation of the enemy--mot merely i on a breakthrough here th.: U. S.-/ shels a year earlier and well above i the 1944 crop and the 55 million
its weal~.ening. This a.~signment to]British attack in the rear of the ithe 1.032 milliorl average ~or 1933-1planted in 1943•
be executed by a non-stop offensive, I German coastal defense front-- 42. This carryover being 50 million OWl ON PRODUCTION LAG
by fast pursuit operations, by tak-[which runs from Abbeville to Rot- bushels above the May forecast re-
l
ing full ad~-antage of the panic and terdam--can open the doors for the flects larger imports and somewhat The Office of War Information re-
ported that production is lagging
disorganization in the ranks of the invasion of the vital industrial smaller wheat feeding than eX')eritically in 13 key war industries
enemy. The war of portion in the area of western Germany. petted earlier.
and that nearly 400.000 more work-
west is over. and it should not be Under ordinary conditions such
permitted to re'~u~n.
Ir~ a very short time the '~m)er
part of Fran,:e's ~oasts wiI! be in
Allied hands and opened to the un-
hampered debarkation of U. S.-Bri-
tish troops. This means that all the
tremendous power concentrated on
the British Isles and in North Afri-
ca can be thrown into the battle-
fields of western Europe at our
will, and that Allied numerical and
material superiority over the lim-
ited resources of the enemy can be
U. S. Largest
Wheat Crop
This year will see the nation's
largest wheat crop and its seccnd
biggest supply of wheat in history,
according to July indications. The
crop report estimated a 1,128 mil-
lion bushel crop for 1944 (93 mil-
lion above the June indication}
consisting of 793 million bushels of
increased almost indefinitely, winter wheat and 335 million of
The coming battle !.~ northwest-I spring. Weather and other factors,
ern France must pcepc~re the mva-lhowever' could materially change
sion of western Germm~y. With] these figures.
smashing blows, Allied armies must] The estimated July 1, 1944 carry-
prevent any stabilization of the t over of 350 million bushels when
German front between Strasbourg added to this crop brings the sup-
and' Abbeville Especially ~ill they ply at the beginning of the wheat
very large supplies would exceed
probable disappearance, h e n c e
stocks would accumulate. But in
the year ahead disappearance is
expected to continue to be very
large.
Because conditions are now sub-
ject to considerable change, great-
er uncertainty than usual is in-
volved in forecasting distribution•
If a July 1, 1945, carry-over of 350
million bushels is achieved a total
disappearance of about 1,125 mil-
lion bushels is indicated. Such a
disappearance might be divided as
follows ,in millions of bus/lois: food
540, feed and alcohol 375-400, ex-
ports 125, ~md seed 80.
A national 1945 goal of 67 to 70
millio~ acres planted to winter and
spring wheat was suggested by the
War Food Administrator early in
ers were needed to bring the out-
put up to the level set by demands
of the armed services. The critical
categories are tires, tire cord, heavy
trucks, tanks, heavy guns, heavy
gun ammunition, signal equipment,
shipbuilding, ship repairs, lum-
ber, basic lumber products, cotton
duck and food processing.
M:ME. CHIANG ILL, SOON HERE
--Madame Chiang.Kai-shek, Chi-
na's first lady, is seriously ill and
will come to the U. S. A. in a few
weeks for "badly needed" medical
care from the same doctor who
treated her two years ago, it was
revealed tonight by her brother-
in-law, Chinese finance minister
Dr. H. H. Kung.
THE LONE RANGER
By Fran Striker
Urge Holding of
Barley Awailing
New OPA Ruling
On July 27, the Office of Price
Administration made a ruling
fi,~ng "maltin~g ,barley." Uade~
their definition any barley con.
taining 20 percent of trebi is barred
from being malting barley and
classified as "feed barley."
Up to that time n:alsters bad beer,
buying barley from the North
kota farmers without
them 15 cents per bushel.
elevators in North Dakota
protest of the unfairness of the
ruling.
Upon taking the matter up
the Agricultural Departmen,t
the War Food administration the
both have recommended to
OPA to set aside this ruling.
have .promised to do so over
telephone and if they do, it wi!
mean that the North Dakota
will be able to get 15 cents
per bushel for his barley. Owing
the great demand for barley,
farmer shot~ld ~temporar~ly
selling it.
productions in the 1920$,
:7-" I/I---TI I
NI
by the Maquis. Chevalier
known to have been a
with the Germans
armistice of 1940. (
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