Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Saturday july to 1943the stars and stripes weekly China ends six years of against chinese Leader sees Complete Victory in two years Chung King China last week marked the close of another year in its fight against the japanese invader and for the first time in six Long years of bitter was fare the chinese nation dared to hint of an unconditional Victory. Generalissimo Chiang Kai Stiek Leader of the chinese military forces took the occasion to broadcast a message of Confidence to his people in which he predicted the Complete downfall of Japan in two years preceded by Quot an unending Stream of victories by the allies throughout the world and an offensive against Japan in which China would play an outstanding role. A our War resistance and the world War situation this Day has reached its highest Peak in our Uphill struggle. One step beyond will be smooth sailing for us a the chinese Leader declared. Chiang coupled his declaration of Victory however with an Appeal to America for Quick action on a major scale against Japan and said that any chinese offensive must be synchronized with action by the United states. Telegram from Roosevelt the Day brought a score of congratulatory and inspiring messages to the chinese from its allies among them a Telegram from president Roosevelt assuring China that the promises and pledges of the United states would be kept. The residents message said in part a a know As you do How much must be done before the enemy is crushed and peace and Justice Page 3 july 14, 1789�?1943 Raymond Clapper swedes Back allies but will stay out by Raymond Clapper special to the stars and stripes before coming to North Africa i spent five weeks in Sweden. The purpose of that trip was to take a look at Germany new Bastille make new revolutions Bastille Day fete planned by French new . Award Coes to chinese Leader chunking july 8�?generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek today received the newest american decoration the legion of Merit in the highest degree of chief commander. The award was conferred by it. Gen. Joseph e. Stilwell commander in chief of american forces in the far East. The legion of Merit the army a latest medal is awarded in four different degrees to the military personnel of foreign countries. Established throughout the world our people Are joined in a common cause. Our arms Are mounting. Our strength is rising. Our determination stands firm and our Triumph is  prime minister Churchill of great Britain told China that a a the initiative in the Battle already has been lost by the  at san Francisco Wendell Wilkie who visited China last year broadcast that a a Victory must unite the Allied Peoples As citizens of one world if the chinese struggle is not to be in  Back in 1937, on the night of july 7, the nations who watched Japan snowball a minor skirmish outside piping into an invasion did t give China and her fledgling armies the ghost of a Chance against the modern Jap War machine. But China held and Japan paid and paid for her reckless underestimating. Japs Are stymied As the War went into its seventh year the chinese could say that j they had the japs stymied. The i japanese could no longer count on easy victories. More than that they j were beginning to get a taste of the Aerial pasting they had Long dished j out to the chinese. Chiang s ground forces were get Ting increased air support from the a 14th Usa of under maj Gen c Aire Chennault who remarked on the Day of the anniversary that Quot during the next year us airmen will Fly Over Japan itself Many  almost solved too was the problem of bringing in american War equipment Long delayed by japanese control of the Burma Road sea terminus. The chinese ministry of communications announced that a new Supply route would to opened soon through Iran and the turkestan siberian railway. China still had a Long Way to go. But she certainly had renewed Hope. French North Africa will celebrate july 14, Bastille Day next wednesday in the old fashioned Way. The corps France do Frique will sponsor a festival designed to simulate the French Independence Day As it was formerly celebrated j there will be carnivals and Side shows and Little Boot is will be set i up in the streets of Many cities i and towns. Of course there will i also be military parades. In occupied France this wednesday there will naturally be no celebrations. Instead placards will 1 be on the Walls warning the peo pie against making any Public demonstrations placards put up by tile German occupying authorities. But  talk about Bastille Day just the same. Perhaps  remember a letter that Lafayette wrote to George Washington on March 17, 1790, which said a these were the principles that i Learned in America which have forced the Bastille storming and which have liberated France. This is Why i offer you this key which must find its rightful place in  the key to the Bastille the old prison in Paris which held political prisoners and was a Symbol of Tyran Nic oppression is now at it. Vernon. Today a bigger Grimmer Bastille keeps France in chains. It was constructed by Adolph Hitler and it Walls in 40 million French. The North african festivities will be a warning to the a a jail keepers a warning that r Ranee now joined by other Liberty Loving allies will soon again storm another Bastille and liberate the prisoners inside. Russian paper names fascists Moscow july 9�?a leading soviet publication today denounced three americans As Quot fifth column leaders Quot in the United states. The three men Are the aviator Charles a. Lindbergh the publisher of the Chicago Tribune Robert r. Mccormick and father Charles e. Coughlin pastor of the shrine of the Little Flower at Royal Oak Mich. In the article headed a Detroit culprits a the russian Trade Union paper Quot Trudy described Lindbergh As a Well known fascist a and referred to Mccormick As a a the voice of the fifth column in  the paper declared that father Coughlin Quot who openly says he is a fascist is spreading propaganda in favor of  Quot hitlers hired men have very few adherents in the United states Quot the publication added. French initiate fascist cleanup through Empire Gas for bombers London one reason for Gas rationing is the 800.000 dollars Worth of gasoline used in every big Raf raid on Western Germany it was announced by Geoffrey Lloyd chairman of the Oil control Board. Each Lancaster heavy bomber uses about 2,000 Gallons for a round trip to targets in the Ruhr he said. The members of the French committee of National liberation settled Down last week to the serious business of governing the French Empire and preparing the French forces in North Africa for the Battles of the future. The past seven Days in Algiers added up to a Good week for democracy As the committee pushed through measures which were definitely anti fascist. Actions of the committee which As precedents for a permanent French government assumed More than immediate significance were 1. The outlawing of the fascist Partie Populaire which functions under the thumb of the notorious nazi Stooge Jacques Doriot now in parts. This organization with its storm trooper units has fought every expression of democracy among frenchmen and did its Best to thwart the Allied landings in november. 2. The dissolution of Vichy imposed a grou peril in to a which were associations to which Farmers manufacturers and some workers had to belong in order to Market their products or services. These Groupe ments had often operated to the ruin of anti fascists by the simple process of denying a a undesirables Quot membership. 3. Gen. Henri re Coretz a dismissal from his Post As air Force chief of French West Africa. He had been a royalist and was considered to have pro fascist tendencies. Gen. Henri Honore Giraud arrived at the White House at 4 30 pm wednesday Hist Over five Days after he left Algiers by plane. It was twice Empl i a sized that Giraud stalks with the president and other american leaders will be of a purely military nature. He got a 17-g in Salute on arrival. Through the nearest window. Sweden is behind the German blockade Wall and you can Only get into Sweden by flying there under certain conditions. But anyone making the trip will be Well repaid for it because there in Neutral Sweden i think one can get a More balanced judgement about the War than in any other place. Swedish officials and swedish business men industrialists and Bankers Are in close touch with Germany. They Are travelling Back and Forth and the swedes run a passenger air plane service to Berlin daily. During the five weeks i spent in Sweden i talked with practically every important swedish government official swedish banker and industrialist what they told me can be added up into a picture of the War that looks about As follows certain of nazi defeat on the basis of the information that the swedes have and their judgement of conditions on both sides they thin that Germany will be Defeated sometime during the latter half of next year. I have had that judgment expressed to me by a variety of the Best informed people in Sweden. They Are All certain Liat Germany will be Defeated. They do not believe we can do it this year. They would be surprised if it does not happen in the last half of 1944 and they Are making their Post War plans on that basis. I am convinced out of scores of conversations that swedes As a whole want us to win but that they do not intend to do any fighting to unit end. I say nothing with regard to approval or criticism of that attitude but try Only to Tell you How the swedes look at it. They were inclined to be pro German in the last War. They Are on the whole anti nazi. Only a few crackpots have tried to form imitation nazi organizations. There were some police once who were  to be pro nazi. Most of Fiat has been cleaned out and at no time was it widespread. Some army and Navy officers in the past were considered to have nazi sympathies partly out of their admiration for the German military machine and partly perhaps out of poli ucal anti democratic leanings. But they have been cleaned out of responsible positions for the most part. The chief of the swedish air Force for instance is a Strong Friend of the Allied Side. He has just sent his son a Pilot in the swedish air Foroe to Washington to be air attache at the swedish legation. That is Good evidence of sincerity. I know of Only one High swedish official who is under suspicion of leaning toward the nazi Side no censorship on the other hand i talked with scores who Are  Friendly to us and who want us to win. I know of things they have done to help our Side. While in Sweden i wrote time and again some of these things i have just written in this article and nothing was censored. More than that the articles were printed in swe fact that she was Friendly to the Allied Side. To Complete the picture one other fact must be stressed. Sweden does not want to become involved in the War and does not expect to to involved. She trades with both sides. I talked with swedish business men who for instance had married norwegians end had relatives in Norway who were being mistreated by the nazis. Yet those same business men had business dealings with Germany. The swedes have to get Coal from Germany and they sell Iron Ore in Exchange. They will sell special High Grade steel and other products to our Side and the Only difficulty is delivery through the German blockade. High living standards the swedes Are prosperous. They have a High Standard of living and they done to want to go to War although they Are calling up Large numbers of men for military training As a defense measure. They do not believe however that Germany has enough strength left to invade Sweden and they do not see that Germany could gain anything by invasion. They know that a nazi Victory would mean loss of much Independence and Freedom for Sweden. The swedes Are above All an Independent people. They have a social democratic government and a press that is As free and fearless As the american press. All of that would be lost if the nazis won the War and the swedes know it. The swedish government is being criticized now by the swedish press for not being rougher on tile nazis for not stopping for instance the use of swedish railroads to carry German troops on leave from Norway Back to Germany. The government May have to yield to that popular pressure before Long. Its hesitation about doing so has been due to a general policy of not wishing to stir up trouble with berlins which is particularly the attitude of the aged King Gustave. He has just passed his eighty fifth birthday. He kept Sweden Neutral in the last War and believes it is his Mission to keep her out of this War. In that he undoubtedly has popular support in Sweden. Psi Chow in Sweden still is almost As Good As pre War but aquavit is now made out of Wood because potatoes Are reserved for food uses Only. Poles to enshrine body of Sikorski London Gen. W lady Slaw Sikorski 61, polish Premier and commander in chief of the polish armies died with his daughter and several polish staff officers in a Liberator which crashed into the sea off Gibraltar last week end. The general a body is now on the Way to London where it will lie in state. After the War the body will be taken to Poland and placed in the Warwel the National shrine at Cracow where Many of Poland a Kings Are buried. No successor to the polish Leader has yet been named. Deputy Premier Stanislaw Mikolajezyk is taking his place Temi it Ora Rily. Is dish newspapers right under the Korsky has been a Cal of Tho polish nose of the German legation the government in exile since the col newspapers of Sweden Are with1 of Pilsy is at Handa one exception taking a pro Allied i Biller in september 1939. Position. Tile one exception is a Small newspaper that the nazis subsidize. That paper carried newspaper editorials denouncing what i had written about Sweden and protesting that the swedish government should not allow pro Allied newspaper men to have so much attention in Sweden. I was Erie of six american newspaper correspondents who went into Sweden. We were taken into restricted areas shown airfields the urge italian troops to cultivate French London italian troops in occupied France Are being urged to cultivate the Friendship of the French Peoples according to radio reports. Leaflets Are secretly passed among italian soldiers by an underground organization ,1ho _ a. Ing itself a the committee of a nov Rorn a Imp no i Tion or the a Tinori italians ill no foreign journalists had been Pianca a permitted to see. In fact Allied Xiii a a committee exhorts  1 Ary and naval attaches were Jan soldiers to do everything pos showed to see them for the first sible to gain the Good will of All time when they accompanied our French persons resisting German party. All of hat i cite not As any Rule. Readers Are reminded that the occupation of France was a special Mark of attention toward crime perpetrated by Mussolini visiting newspaper men but As a the dupe of Hitler. Tile ultimate very Strong indication of Sweden a course of action will be to attack desire to impress America with tile the nazis and roman fascists