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World Role Urged (Crider) – 2-3
London Hails ‘Plain-Spoken’ Message; Berlin Sees Aim to Break Spine of Reich – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Key Road Neared (Middleton) – 3-6
Rundstedt Faces Trap in Belgium (Denny) – 6-7
Foe Still Claims Vosges Initiative – 7
Bomber Fleets Rip Rhine Rail Points – 7-8
Marshal Montgomery Visits American Lines (page 1 photo) – 8
Patton’s Armored Forces Fanning Out to Attack (photo) – 8
A Panorama of War as Our Men Go to the Relief of the Bastogne Garrison (photo) * – 9
Luzon Thrust Seen – 10-11
Halsey Smashes 83 Japanese Ships (Horne) – 11
Nanking Bombed 7 Hours, Says Foe – 12
UNRRA Gives Order to Brazilian Mills – 12
Air Leader Scores Democracy Heads – 14
Veterans’ Intelligence (Hurd) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17
Eisenhower Keeping All His Generals – 17

The News of the Week in Review
The Course of the Nazi Offensive (map) – 18
Battle of the ‘Bulge’ – 19-20
Invasion Prelude – 20
Fifteen News Questions – 21
Air Power’s Role in the Far Pacific (map) – 22
Pacific War’s Tempo Mounts as Luzon Invasion Nears (Shalett) – 23
Battle of the West: A Pattern of Attack and Counter-Attack (map) – 24
Nazis Hold Initiative on the Western Front (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 25
“There’ll Be an Eisen-Hour!” (cartoon) – 26
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 26

The New York Times Book Review
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere – 27
My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair, by Elizabeth Sale (Reviewed by Jane Cobb, first-time contributor) – 27

* Due to the width of the copied photo the scanner cut off about ½” of the left end.