Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1945, Cairo, Egypt January 1945 stars and Miodu beast text of list presidents state of the Union following to a jew Ftnat of a extent Hob stews message i on anti m the to Anent following 1s a arc Fufai text of pet Dent Rose news message of the read in joint session of congrats at by in considering the state of the the and the peace that is to naturally in the minds of All of this War must be is being with the greatest and most persistent everything we Are and have is at everything we Are and have will be american fighting far from have already won victories which the world will never forget Vve have no question of the ultimate we have no question of the our losses will be and our allies will go on fighting together to ultimate total we have seen a year on the by substantial Progress toward even though the year ended with a set Back for our when the Ger mans launched a ferocious counter into Luxembourg and Bel Gium with the obvious objective of cutting line in the our men have fought with in describable and Unfong table Gal Lantry under Host difficult con and our German enemies have sustained considerable losses failing to obtain their the High tide of this German Effort was reached two Days after since then we have re assumed the rescued the isolated Garrison at and forced a German withdrawal along the whole line of the the Speed with which we recovered from this Savage attack was Lar gely possible because we have one supreme commander in Complete control of All the Allied armies in Eisenhower has faced this period of trial admirable Calm and Resolution and with steadily increasing he has my Complete further desperate attempts May Well be made to break our to slow our we must never make the mistake of Assum ing that the germans Are beaten until the last nazi warns against Axis propaganda and i would express another most serious warning against the poisonous effects of enemy prop the wedge that the germans at tempted to drive in Western Europe was less dangerous in actual terms of winning the War than the wedges which they Are continually attempting to drive be tween ourselves and our every Little Rumor which is in tended to weaken our Faith in pm allies is like an actual enemy agent in our to sabotage our War there Here and evil and baseless rumours against the mors against the against our own american com Manders in the Road to Victory in we shall resume the despite temporary set backs Here or shall continue the attack relentlessly until Germany is completely it is appropriate at this time to review the Basic strategy which has guided us through three years of and which will even to total the tremendous Effort of the first years of this War was directed toward the concentration of men and supplies in the various Heaters of action at the Points where they could Hurt our enemies it was an the language of the military Depoy Niento of our Many Battles were fought Many were but these Battles and these victories were fought and won to hold Back the attacking and to put us in positions from which we and our allies could deliver the decisive in the our most important military task was to pre vent our strongest and most violently aggressive Powers that Ever have threatened winning decisive but even while we were conducting delaying we were looking Forward to the time when we could wrest the initiative from our enemies and place our Superior resources of men and materials into direct com petition with vast superiority required it was Plain then that the de feat of either enemy would re quire the massing of overwhelming sea and to from which we and our allies could strike directly against the enemy and destroy the nazi and japanese War main the Case of we had to await the completion of Exten Sive preliminary actions designed to establish secure Supply lines through the japanese outer zone this called for overwhelming sea Power and air Power supported by ground forces strategically employed against isolated outpost lae very Day we were was Niit my a Wei to reject uie argument 01 these people Wiio would Nave Nau a Iii run Britain and Lussia to the a voices and Concei pirate the such people that we ii gift a purely be Lei live War Gamst Japan Wluke allowing the domination of ail the rest 01 the wond by Anu la uie european the necessary bases Tor the massing of ground air Power against Germany were already Ava nume in great in the Mediterranean area we could begin ground operations against major cements of the Ger Man army As rapidly As we could put troops in the first inca and then m european blueprint our decision was made to concentrate the bulk of our ground and air forces against Ger Many until her utter that decision was based on ail these factors arid it was based on the realization of our two enemies Germany would be More Able to digest quickly her con the More Ajie quickly to convert the manpower and resources of her conquered territory into a War had in Europe two Active and indomitable and the soviet there were also the heroic resistance move ments in the occupied constantly engaging and harrass aug the As a result of the combined Effort of the Allied great military victories were achieved in h1m4 the liberation of Bel Greece and parts of the be Yugo Slavia and the sur Render of Rumania and Bulgaria the invasion of Germany itself and Hungary the steady March through the Pacific islands to the Philip Guam and Saipan and the beginning of a mighty air Offen Sive against the japanese critical phase now As this seventy ninth con Gress we have reached the most critical phase of the the greatest Victory of the last year the successful breach on june of the Ger Man impregnable sea Wall of Europe and the victorious sweep of the Allied forces through France and Belgium arid Luxembourg Al most to the Rhine the Cross Channel invasion of the Allied armies was the greatest amphibious operation in the his tory of the it overshadowed All other operations in this or any other War in its its Success is a tribute to the fighting courage of the soldiers who stormed the the sailors and merchant seamen who put the sol Diers ashore and kept them sup to the military and naval leaders who achieved a real Miracle of planning and and it is also a tribute to the Abi Lity of two Britain and to plan and work and fight together in perfect cooperation and perfect this Cross Channel invasion was followed in August by a second great amphibious land ing troops in Southern la the same cooperation and the same Harmony existed Between the French and other Allied forces based in North Africa and Battle of the Atlantis these two great operations were made possible by Success in the Battle of the without this Success Over Ger Man we could not have built up our invasion forces or air forces in great nor could we have kept a steady Stream of supplies flowing to them after they had landed in the however May succeed in improving their submarines and their they have recently increased their boat a the Battle of the Atlantic like All campaigns of this War de mands eternal the Canadian and other Allied together with our own Are constantly on the the forgotten War the tremendous operations in Western Europe have overshadowed in the Public mind the less spectacular but vitally important Ita Lian its place in the strategic conduct of the War in Europe has been and by some it is important that any misconception on that score be corrected what the Allied forces in Italy Are doing is a Well considered part in or strategy in now aimed at Only one total defeat of the these valiant forces in Italy Are continuing to keep a substantial portion of the German army under cons Tant some Twenty firs line German divisions and the necessary Supply and transport and replacement troops a 01 Wilien our enemies need so tue Tinei ictus every Soldier Aow lag Wiig m the apus Mai tic in Tiitus Ilioiu has Imp 1081 any of tuts importance it had m tue Days when it was the oily Allied Luiu m bumping in the Pacific in the during the part we Nave conduced tue lust est Ovig of pensive in the ius Tury of modern we have driven tue enemy Dack Ines across the Central a year our Conquest of la Rawa was a Little More Tuan a month a year we were preparing for our invasion of the second of our great strides across uie Central Pacific to the Puiu a year general Macarthur was Sun fighting in new almost 1500 Miles from his present position in the philippine again and again we now have firmly established bases m the Mariana islands from Winch our super fortresses Bomi Tokyo will continue to Japan in eve increasing japanese forces in the Philippi nes been Cut in Tii Eie is still hard fighting but the liberation of the Philippines will mean that Japan Nas been largely Cut off from her Conquest in the East the Landing of our troops on Leyte was the largest amphibious operation thus far conducted in the Jap Fleet in hiding our Overall strategy has not neglected the important task of rendering All possible Aid to despite almost insuperable diff we increased this Aid Dur our Aid to China must the accomplished by air is no other by the end of the air transport command was carrying into China a tonnage of supplies three times As great a that delivered a year and much More each than the Burma Road Ever delivered at its despite the loss of important bases in the tonnage delivered by air transport has Ena bled general Chennai is fourteenth air which includes Many chinese to wage an effective aggressive Campaign against the in air Craft of the fourteenth air Force flew More than the japanese and sunk tonnage of enemy by diminishing the of the China sea Dominion and chinese forces together with our own have not Only held the line in Burma against determined japanese at tacks but have gained bases of considerable importance to the sup ply line into tribute off a nation in All of the far Flung operations of out own armed and sea and in the final the toughest has been performed by the easy Ameri can who carries the weight of Bat the on his own it is to him that we and All future generations of americans must pay grateful it is of Small satisfaction to him to know that monuments will be raised to him in the he he and he is entitled to insist our full and Active although unprecedented production figures have made our we shall have to in crease our goal even fair Peak deliveries of supplies were made to the War department in due in part to Cut we have not produced As much since deliveries of army supplies were Down by 15 percent by before the upward trend was once More re goal jumped because of Jiuu mud demands from the army Bervice forces in the Mouth or had to increase its estimate Ixl required Prus Uckun Diu per Cut in uie Tutu u be increased another 10per sending uie pious Cuoni Guai Tui above any Ming we Nave yet our armed forces in com Dut have steam by increased to Weir expenditure of medium and heavy artillery As we continue the decisive pauses of Tibia me munitions Tuat we sex feud will mount Day by 111 while some a void uie 111 111cu u lil viuu6 of uie one 01 due Nuoi i get imme Diate of me aimed voices us Iuie me i buy was fact i in Nui aes tune uie duo lieu to Rouse Hie Active Ecru Iulg Una uce ii Cariie it uie net gain in Yigui Usu Maui uus lieu oily Lucy me now nurses m uie urgent need for lie cent estimates Nave increased the total Nunu Jer needed to Nat Means Tuat More Nur ses must be Jodi aupied Lor me army alone and me now requires additional the present Snori Uge of army nurses is reflected in undue Strain on the existing Moie Man a thousand Are now Hospital and part of tins is due to the shortage is also indicated by the fact that eleven army Hospital units have sent Over seas without to Weir complement of at army hospitals in the United states there is Only one nurse to instead of the recommended one to 15 it is tragic that the Gallant women who have volunteered for service As nurses should i be so it is tragic that our wounded men should Ever want for the Best possible nursing asks drafting of nurs3 the inability to get the needed nurses for the army is not due to any shortage of registered nurses Are now practising in this it has been estimated by the War manpower com Mission that additional Nur ses could be made available to the armed forces without interfering too seriously with the needs of civilian population for continued on Page 6
