Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the American troops of the Seventh Corps, under the command of Major General Joseph Collins, had taken Cherbourg and were now conducting mopping-up operations, as experts were being sent to the port city to begin laying plans for use of the facility to funnel men and supplies into France. Mines, underwater explosives, and boobytraps had first to be detected and removed from the harbor before it could be placed into use.

Declared Supreme Command, the beachhead had now been expanded to a bridgehead, replete with the port and airfields. Eight American divisions were now fighting on the Peninsula.

All was quiet now in the town, reported Don Whitehead. The guns were silenced. Only a piano accordion, played by a sergeant from Minnesota, broke the air with sentimental melodies.

The British struck along a six to seven-mile line east and southeast of Tilly-sur-Seulles, capturing three additional towns, as advanced elements reached to within three miles of the Nazi stronghold at Caen.

Supreme Allied Headquarters reported that, since D-Day, the Germans had suffered at least 70,000 casualties, including 32,000 prisoners. The prisoners included the garrison commander on Cherbourg, Lt.-General Carl Wilhelm von Schlieben, and the sea defense commander for Normandy, Rear Admiral Hennecke. The Nazis, in defending Cherbourg, had lost most of four divisions.

Up to 500 American bombers out of Italy attacked Budapest, Brod in Yugoslavia, and, from shuttle bases in Russia, Drohobycz in Poland. Forty-four planes were lost, of which 36 were heavy bombers.

British Mosquitos had attacked the night before at Gottingen in Germany, losing one plane.

In Italy, the Eighth Army had again driven the Germans out of Chiusi after it had exchanged hands once. The Army then advanced several miles northwest of the town. The Fifth Army progressed along the Tyrrhenian coast to a point ten miles beyond the captured port at Piombino, heading for Pisa and Livorno.

On Saipan, fighting continued for Garapan, population 10,000, the largest town on the island. The Marines meanwhile took a 1,554-foot height, Mount Tapotchau, the highest on the island, from which the American forces were able to direct artillery fire throughout the remaining Japanese positions, many holed up in caves, on the northern half of the island. Magicienne Bay and the Kagman Peninsula were now completely under the control of the Americans.

In Russia, the German forces at Orsha, Mogilev, and Bobruisk, along a hundred-mile line, appeared in the process of collapsing. Orsha, next important city south of captured Vitebsk, had already been occupied by the Red Army and troops were on the outskirts of Mogilev, while another Army forged through the Drut and Berezina River valleys toward Bobruisk, between Zhlobin and Minsk.

In Chicago, the Republicans were busy drawing up their platform, while word from Governor Earl Warren, keynote speaker on Monday night, was awaited as to whether he would be in the running for the vice-presidential nomination. Pressure was being placed on Governor Warren to accept the position on the ticket.

The foreign policy plank approved by the drafting committee retained language which was opposed by Wendell Willkie and fifteen governors, that an international organization ought be formed after the war with "peace forces" at its disposal. Additional language cautioned against U.S. membership in a "world state". It was this latter language to which Mr. Willkie objected, as well as desiring the substitution of "armed forces" for "peace forces". He also wanted the immediate creation of a Council of United Nations, not one dominated by the Big Four.

House Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts meantime gave a speech in which he contended the New Deal was doomed.

On the editorial page, "Side Shows" remarks that neither of the party conventions for this election year would garner much attention from the public for the fact that the war occupied the preeminent position in the collective mind of the nation and that was not going to be displaced by the speeches, bands, and bunting in Chicago.

The Republicans would emerge with a new candidate who had going for him the fact that tradition was counterpoised to a fourth term, even if the fire in that issue had largely been extinguished after the tradition had been broken in 1940. The President would have on his side the fact of his being perceived as a seasoned leader, in foreign and domestic affairs, and considered a stationary fixture on the world stage. Governor Dewey would have only four months to destabilize that view, strongly held by the people.

The hope by many Americans was that the Republicans would emerge with a new liberalism while renouncing the Old Guard. But few held out realistic hope that such would occur.

"No Peace" considers a speech made by Judge Henry L. Stevens, former commander of the American Legion, addressing Navy graduates at Chapel Hill, urging that, to insure world peace, Germany needed to be demilitarized and deindustrialized. He also advocated the re-education of the German people, especially the youth, with the stress on inculcation of "brotherly love".

The piece strongly disagrees with the concept of deindustrializing Germany, as being emasculative to the point of creating economic woes, not unlike those following World War I which had led to the Nazi movement. Moreover, it agrees with Dorothy Thompson and other commentators that the Germans had to be made responsible for rebuilding their own country, including re-education to blot out the specter of Nazism.

"Cherbourg" finds the victory on the Peninsula, taking the port, to be reminiscent of the victory over the Axis forces on Cap Bon Peninsula in Tunisia in May of 1943. For the first time in that battle, the Nazis had been cut to pieces by the Allies. So it was again.

With General Montgomery's forces of British and Canadian troops fighting before Caen to hold back reinforcements and supplies from the trapped Nazis on Cherbourg, the battle had reached a quick climax and conclusion, just three weeks after D-Day. The success hearkened more such quick and decisive victories as General Montgomery and other forces to be landed would plunge more deeply into France, toward Paris and beyond.

With yet ten months of hard fighting to go in Europe, it would be so, save for the cruel exception of the Battle of the Bulge come December.

"Recreation" comments on an upcoming survey to be conducted in Charlotte by the National Recreation Association to assess the quality of recreation facilities in the community. Previously, the grade had been low, that of an average community of a population of 25,000, not the 100,000-plus in Charlotte. So, despite noble efforts by the Recreation Department, working with a paucity of funds, the community lagged behind even other North Carolina cities. An increase in the tax base was needed to generate more than the $21,000 income annually available from taxes.

Dorothy Thompson analyzes the Republican platform with respect to the eventual nominee, presumably Thomas Dewey. He would be shaped by the platform and would not lead in its development. He was, by all accounts, an excellent administrator, but not a visionary or great leader. Governor Dewey had learned from the problems encountered by Wendell Willkie in 1940, in his attempt then to shape the Republican platform and to mold the party during the campaign to a broader outlook domestically and to woo it from its isolationist roots with respect to foreign policy. The result had been a splintering of the party, which ultimately cost Mr. Willkie a large segment of independent voters. Governor Dewey would inevitably therefore follow a restrained course.

Ms. Thompson suggests that the Republicans would be wise, however, to listen to the counsel of Mr. Willkie for the reason that his voice was one of progress and not retrenchment in the past. While the New Deal was no longer a program sufficient to handle post-war domestic needs, neither would be a shift backward to the policies of laissez-faire holding sway in the 1920's. Nor would a return to isolationism.

Samuel Grafton explores the unreal atmosphere extant at the Chicago convention, with both labor voices and Wendell Willkie's voice excluded. The Republicans had broken with the old precedent of having the prior nominee sit at the head of the resolutions committee and speak at the convention. They had chosen to shunt Mr. Willkie out of mind and thus avoid open conflict with his liberal and internationalist ideals. It was a mistake, posits Mr. Grafton, for it bred an unreality which would make it too easy to believe that the party could co-exist in the unrarefied world outside the hall with the population of the country at large without dealing with liberals and labor.

We suggest that the 2012 Republicans take note, for your party still suffers from the same malady as it did in 1944.

Marquis Childs also chides the party for excluding Mr. Willkie to prevent open floor fights. The atmosphere was subdued, in part because of the consequent absence of tension and in another part for the large headlines from Europe and the Pacific confronting the delegates at the end of each session as they stepped into the broiling summer streets. In yet another part, the play lacked its star, Hamlet, yet to enter the stage with his script in hand, one yet unknown to the other players in the play being the thing.

Mr. Childs believes that Governor Dewey was going to reorganize the party in his own image such that the Old Guard leaders would scarcely recognize it.

Drew Pearson finds the convention to be inconsonant with the world stage, that the center was occupied by the war and its news, and the party convention thus was cloaked in gossamer raiment, scarcely visible to the outside world.

He then reports on the various men surrounding Thomas Dewey. His chief advisor and kingmaker had been Paul Lockwood. His philosophy was that destiny is an impatient suitor, brief in its attention to mere mortals, and so the year 1944 was propitious for Governor Dewey. By 1948, Mr. Lockwood predicted, there would be an Eisenhower to come out of the war to run for the nomination.

Herbert Hoover had been an enthusiastic supporter of Governor Dewey. And, during the winter, it appeared that he might become secretary of state in a Dewey administration. But, it had become clear that this role would be occupied instead by John Foster Dulles. Governor Dewey expressed his admiration for the former President. "But," he said, "Dewey has always surrounded himself with men who look toward the future."

Thus, though four years premature in prediction, one gets a fair crystal ball in this single piece of the future footprint on the landscape to be set by the Republican Party during the bulk of the 1950's, from 1953 to 1961, with Dwight Eisenhower as President and, until his death in 1959, John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State.

And, of course, Elvis as Secretary of Teenagers, trying to keep the riffraff, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, under control to cut down on juvenile delinquency. Elvis's Undersecretary would be Rick Nelson, and his assistant secretaries, the Brothers Four and the Four Freshmen.

Hal Boyle reports from England that Mary, the nine-year old English pony, was supplying good-luck horseshoes to the G.I.'s to carry with them to the Normandy front. But Mary did so only for a price, that being the standard chick magnet of G.I.'s, beer and chewing gum.