TEHERAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 32, 10 December 1943, Page 4

TEHERAN

THE latest cables indicate that Marshal Stalin could only be prevailed upon to attend the conference at Teheran on the .assurance that the Allied leaders came there expressly prepared to discuss concrete plans for second and third fronts. The emphasis that such actions should be: soon, lays stress upon the Russian impatience at the apparent Allied restraint which we have to admit has at various peri6ds even perplexed ourselves. That the Russian leader left the conference apparently fully satisfied with the discussions furnishes another clue to the growing* evidence that the Allies are to-day planning the coup-de-grace which will overwhelm Naziism and free the European peoples of the yoke of modern slavery which Hitler has imposed upon them. It is estimated that to fall in with Stalin's demands in Europe the Anglo-American forces would require at least five: million troops, and tens of thousands of aircraft. Even such a" vast undertaking as this is not however regarded as beyond the scope of the tremendous Allied war strength which has accumulated over the past two years. If the Turkish armies are to march, their action will probably be the signal for the concerted action by the armies of Britain and America against the European mainland. Thus with Turkey advancing along the Eastern Mediterranean, the Fifth and the Eighth Armies moving- up through Italy, the new armies from Britain assaulting the European citadel and the Soviet troops moving swiftly in from the noreast the picture presented is of four great frontal columns converging relentlessly upon Berlin for the avowed pur-> pose of eliminating Hitler and all he stands for.