Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that Prime Minister Churchill's second speech to Congress, the first having been December 26, 1941, reassured that after victory over Germany, the British would continue to fight side by side with America. He also informed that he and President Roosevelt hoped soon to meet with Josef Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek. He further reported that the war in North Africa had, in sum, cost the Axis 950,000 soldiers, two million gross tons of shipping, and over eight thousand planes. The Prime Minister was, as before, received warmly by the members of Congress.

Senator Happy Chandler, who the day before had suggested in a speech that Britain and Russia would turn aside from the alliance with America once the war with Germany was won and thus advocated a war policy of beating Japan first, appeared generally pleased with the speech, still being left, however, with many unanswered questions.

Total German and Italian casualties in Tunisia after the breach of the Mareth Line were reported to have amounted to 324,000, of whom 30,000 had been killed, 27,000 wounded, and the remainder captured.

Meanwhile, the Allies again heavily bombed the island of Pantellaria between Cap Bon and Sicily.

Floodwaters from the blown pair of dams in Germany were reported to be washing away Germans in the Ruhr and Weser industrial areas.

The Nazi propaganda machine was busy churning out photographs of the Atlantic Wall along the French coast, similar in appearance to the West Wall before the Maginot Line. The Nazis bragged that it provided impregnable defense against invasion.

On the editorial page, "Gay Carillon" comments on the sound of joy from British and Northern Irish bells ringing out the victory in Tunisia, a brace of jangles which must have struck the ears of General Jurgen von Arnim discordantly as he disembarked from an airplane in southern England to begin his stint as a prisoner of war. He would be treated, the piece states, better than the average German soldier, respectful of his rank. He would need to be, to have an opportunity to contemplate and erase the harsh memories of utter defeat in North Africa.

"Big Timber" places no belief in the prospects of James Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice and former Senator from South Carolina, now, since October, Chair of the Office of Economic Stabilization, Governor Olin Johnston of South Carolina, Governor Melville Broughton of North Carolina or Governor Ellis Arnall, newly elected Governor of Georgia, to be on the Democratic presidential ticket come 1944. Talk of their prospects notwithstanding, the editorial was wholly correct in its assessment. Instead, it would be FDR and Harry Truman of Missouri, comnpleting his trio of Vice-Presidents during his twelve years in office, the first having been John Nance Garner of Texas, followed by the current Henry Wallace, former Secretary of Agriculture from Iowa, who would, himself, mount a bid for the presidency in 1948 on the Progressive Party ticket.

"Subterfuge" finds the Japanese claim that poison gas was being used on them by American troops on Attu as not only a preposterous lie but one told ironically, as it was the Japanese who had first used poison gas in warfare as well as having pioneered the use of bacterial warfare to spread cholera and bubonic plague. As much as they deserved doses of their own medicine, the piece concludes, they would not receive it from the Americans. The tactic only foretold defeat on Attu, it reasons, and the means by which an excuse might be offered for failure to live up to glory in battle.

Raymond Clapper reports that German industrialists visiting Sweden were voicing insistence that it was clear now in Germany that the war would be lost, that the Nazis would have to go. Yet, still patriotism superseded anti-Nazi feeling.

Food, especially meat, was reported to be in short supply, made even worse now by the loss of Sfax in Tunisia, a source of phosphates for fertilizer.

Tubing for locomotives was no longer easily to be had, resultant of the bombing raids.

Students were being executed in Munich; 200,000 displaced Germans who had lost their homes in bombing raids had reportedly been shipped to Norway to displace Norwegians.

Everywhere the wheels were coming off and anger abounded as dismal conditions in Germany poured over into the occupied lands.

Samuel Grafton again advocates no more Darlanism, that is being cozy with former collaborators, as practiced by the Allies in the aftermath of the November landings in North Africa. He favors the London Plan of unconditional surrender--no truck former Axis sympathizers.