London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 we shall work for a just and durable Delano Roosevelt yesterday took the oath of office for his fourth term As president of the United states in a solemn 20minute ceremony on the South portico of the White in his Brief inauguration  shortest on Roosevelt pledged the Natker in Light on for total Victory in War and for a just and lasting approximately guests gathered on the Snow covered White House Lawn in the freezing Eold to watch the other thousands peered through the tall Iron Fence around the grounds of the several disabled veterans of the War were in the crowd and served As reminders of the Jess Jons which the president said the had Learned at fearful after the president took the Harry Truman was sworn in As the Complete text of president Roosevelt inauguration address you will understand i agree with my wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its words we americans of today together with Are passing through a period of supreme it is a test of our of our of our of our essential i if we meet that and shall perform a service of historic importance which men and women and children will Honor throughout All As i having taken a solemn oath of office in the presence of Ray fellow the pre sence of our know it is americas purpose that we shall not 1 in the Days and in the years that Are to come we shall work for a just and durable peace As today we work and fight for total Viktory in we can and we will achieve such we shall strive for we shall not achieve it we still shall we May make mis but they must never be mistakes which result from faint Ness of heart or abandonment of moral i remember that my old schoolmaster in Days that seemed to us then to be secure and untroubled things in life will not always run sometimes we will be rising toward All will seem to re verse itself and Start a great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward that a line drawn through the Middle of the peaks and valleys of the centuries always has an upward our Constitution of 1787 was not a perfect instrument it is not perfect but it provided a firm base upon which All manner of of All races and colors and could build our solid Structure of today in this year of we have Learned lessons fearful we shall profit by we have Learned that we cannot live alone at that our own Well being is dependent on the Well being of other nations far we have Learned that we must live As not As ostriches nor As dogs in the we have Learned to be citizens of the members of the human we have Learned the simple As Emerson hat the Only Way to have a Friend is to be we can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and with we can gain it Only if we proceed with understanding and Confidence and courage which flows from the almighty god has blessed our land in Many he has Given our people Stout hearts and Strong arms with which to strike mighty blows for Freedom and he has Keystone photo radio hotbed from new this picture shows president Roosevelt being sworn in for a Fot Irth term in Washington in the Center is satiate Secretary Edward and at right the presidents eldest Given to our country a Faith which has become the Hope of All Peoples in a anguished we Pray now to him for vision to see see the Way that to a better life for ourselves and for All our the achievement of his to peace on 2 weather Hooch opened 9ths a Jamb Bays on bulge by Button Siars and stripes staff of bomber Short Winter Day Light began to fade across the West front on both sides of the fighting men looked up and watched the Murk of another evening change to darkness the weather was lowering skies of the sort which had masked the German breakthrough in the ardennes from the 16 to its High Point first Rush on this no flying hitlers the doughs dug Back behind the in a room filled with even barred charts which plotted the weather of a Young first lieutenant peered suddenly at the lines his 4 Oclock readings were he looked up at the Days last Gray Light and Bent to his worked a month the Story of the dramatic night hours of 2223 can be when the weather on which the nazis were and which grounded Allied air changed in the darkness and let the Allied command pour five Days of almost uninterrupted bombing attack against the German showed the same thing Allied observers feel sure hitlers weathermen gave him a prediction of continued bad flying weather before the Winter drive jumped the allies own charts showed substantially the same from 16 to the morning of the 23rd Allied airmen who got off their Fields flew through dec level Clouds and bitter with the weather still bad there was a Good Chance the nazi communications system would be Able to replenish front supplies for another that was the Way it was when the Day Light began to fade in the 9th of bomber command weather Lloyd onetime Federal meteorologist from Carl of Harold of Dover Robert of and others had been Dol fully watching their then from frontline observers began to come new temperatures moisture an area of High pressure beginning move into the Battle it was what we Call the russian Vanderman would push them Back at 1630 Vanderman began to see a possibility that the russian High would meet the bad weather fronts from England if were Strong pus them Back so that bomber bases in would be Between 1700 and As Vander mans readings began to turn a vague Hope into a sound Tele phones began to jangle All across Allied held other weathermen began to Check on Vandermass Lloyd of called in from a bomber Wing with an Independent Survey checking that on which Wyman and the others were into the office of Sam 9th of by Wenn the there was nothing definite but Anderson ordered his staff to work through the night to make the bombers ready if the morning of the 23rd should be at first Light on 23 american soldiers could look up at the first Clear sky in a and know that was the germans could Only lookup at the Clear nazis in Tommy suits try infiltrating in Italy Allied Italy 21 adopting methods used in patrols of germans dressed i British uniforms were reported today to have attempted infiltration of Allied lines on the italian where weather has confined ground operations to patrol and raiding at helped route japs 21 India China division of the american Aii transport by flying thousands of chinese Iro bps from North China South to Yunnan played a big part in saving the situation in China when chunking and Kunming were menaced by a japanese drive into Keichow province Early last air transport offered the Only possible answer of countering the japanese Advance on chief City of Keichow East of but the Northern Airfield from where the troops were to be flown was inadequately equipped for the so american air men rushed to the spot with radio and navigational reinforcements began to be flown from although the Airfield was still being in the Peak Over chinese troops were carried daily on the five hour eos 200 Millionth Viletter goes to for the two Hundred Millionth email letter from the Eto to the passed through the army email unit in London yester base Headquarters it was in the form of to presi Dent Roosevelt from i pictured As a grizzled Rifleman peering from a Snow covered the London postal unit processes letters using photo recording machines which handle up to pieces of mail an 3rd linkup associated press photo the 1st and 3rd armies linked up at Houff Alize when a Hal track of the 2nd armoured division crossed the Ourthe River Over a Bridge built by 1st army Houff Alize was found in ruins after some of the bitterest fight ing during Runcel stents Burma wanting Road clearer Southeast Asia 21 a commandos and colonial troops stormed ashore this morning on Ramiree off Burmas West following a naval bombardment and one of the heaviest air attacks in this theater against Jap positions on this strategic from which All of Southern Burma can be dominated by the pre invasion bombings had largely neutralized enemy but some opposition was met before the assault forces secured their less than 20 Miles of the Burma Road now remain to be following last nights capture of last sizable Jap held town on the Overland route from Burma to cutting Corners to gut the cornered infantrymen of the 3rd armoured division Advance under a fierce enemy barrage in the frontline town of Mont be the Comer of the building on the left has just been torn away by and smoke and dust Are still West fronts continued Page 1 1st army troops driving from the North were fighting House House in 3j Miles from striking from High ground on three sides of this Village in the path to the germans main bastion in the Northern part of their the built of great Stone have been turned into defense Points by the and each one must be taken in close Quarter along the Southern shoulder of the four 3rd army divisions were pressing northward toward the 1st doughboy of the 5th division cleared two Miles North of Branden and 80th division troops took three Miles Northwest of Northeast of 90th division units met Only resistance in Captur ing six Miles at the same tanks of the 6th armoured division captured nearby yesterdays dispatches disclosed Man counterattack saturday against 3rd army troops holding the sharia Stern Bridgehead following a heavy artillery barrage according to prisoners from the estimated 400 nazis taking had caused a number of casualties among their own another counterattack was put in by tanks and infantry near two villages 13 Miles Southeast of Luxemburg the position there was said to be in the Maas Roer Triangle above British 2nd Areny troops plow ing through snowstorms gained two Miles and captured several villages on this hol land German Border enemy resistance was and attempted counterattack was broken up before it could get under 1 pm cleared in butt trials 21 Norma ii of yesterday became the first of 182 enlisted men and two officers charged with Blac marketing cigarettes to win acquittal when the court martial established that he stole the rations for his own use and not for to Speed the two courts martial began sitting simultaneously weekend sentences Bert 35 years Louis Ray mond Daley and James 15 years Robert of 35 years Frederick of and Rollie 20 years Donald of it 10 Studley sentence was the lightest on record in the current i Heads economic group 21 Nelson assistant Secretary of yesterday was elected chairman of the inter american financial and economic advisory reds 20 i inside Reich i continued from Page 1 recently at hitlers Headquarters to review Cluj alarming fit the Northern end of the front marshal Chernia Kovsky third White russian army swept on after capturing tilsit and were approximately 44 from capital of East according to these press ing ahead through an area Witk in heavy had reached the skirts of Ansterburg after  18 Miles inside the Germar by the capture of the first sizeable town taken so far on German soil Chernia Kovsky won an important Crossings Over the Niemen i a Moscow radio broadcast said the nazi defences on the Road to Konigsberg vere breaking fall of Tannenberg in another order of the Day Stalin announced that marshal to Kossovsky second White russian army had crossed the East prussian Border from the South and penetrated to a depth of 16 Miks along a 50mile i this driving through a blizzard in an out flanking move against captured scene of Hinden burgs great Victory Over the russian to penal army in the last is 82 Miles Southeast of Konigsberg and 98 Miles Southeast of other places captured included Nieden just inside the and 17 Miles Northeast of Niedenberg the germans claimed russian tanks were 88 Miles from Danzig i Danzig after broadcasting a warning to listeners that the cites Posi tio was went off the in the Center of on Rokos Sovsky left marshal Zhukov troops were 125 Miks West of driving in a straight line toward i armed Northwest and West this spearhead was aimed Northwest As Well As West and elements of Zhukov a Force were reported within 60 Miles of Posen and 50 Miles Southeast of the Mun cations Center of Bydgoszcz on the Berli Danzig in Southern Poland and Northern Petrovs Mountain troops continued to Advance on both sides of the carpathians and have captured now on the polish Side of the Moun and bar Ejov and in a Are located of the rail Way leading to Kresov and Kosice were nazi Vox Industry centers and contained substantial1 stores of arms and food whih Feu into russian i the situation in Hungary was report Tsi unchanged with the germans still launch ing counterattacks at  an Effort to break through to the inside Budapest the russians continued their task of annihilating the last i remnants of the nazi Garrison in russians say nazis use is Moscow reports yesterday quoted russian frontline dispatches disclosing that nazi being used against red army troops advancing into East German usually Quick to describe Al and v2 have said nothing about employment of these weapons against the and week end German broadcasts claimed that a new plan had been worked out for attack ing British Headquarters and the Central area of British War pro the greater London area ranks first on the target though Antwerp and Liege Are not being German news Agency comparing what it said was the new weapon i firing technique with artillery the Agency said the next in Tention is obviously to set up so Many batteries that a Salvo into the Gream London area can have the same effect if a carpet of robot bombs fell on twi British from Stockholm the free Genii press Bureau reported that nearly nazi scientists were experimenting weapons on Bornholm off East danish and that nazi m tons minister Albert Speer had inspected an underground robot factory though v2 launching Sites Are dii to British tactical planes have Able to Cut Down the scale of enemy bar dment by striking at railway c through whih the missiles Are the firing More than 200 sorties were flown saturday when 16 if were made in lines from Germany occupied