AMERICAN TROOPS
MUCH SPECULATION
LONDON, September 3.
The news of the landing on the mainland of Europe has been received with satisfaction throughout the Allied nations.
In. Washington, President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill sat up until early this morning waiting for the first news flash. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, described the invasion as the first step in the occupation of Continental Europe by the Allied armies.
The Russian Ambassador to the United States smiled at reporters when "the invasion was mentioned to him. "This is good news," he said. He was calling on Mr. Cordell Hull with a communication from his Government, but he refused to discuss his visit.
Americans are eagerly waiting further news, and a correspondent in Washington says there is much speculation there about the United States troops. The question is being asked whether they are being held for a separate thrust somewhere else.
able. The terrain is exactly the contrary of that in Sicily. The Axis air force, because of the decentralisation of the Allied invasion fleets, which were spread over many parts, could deal only severe and not crippling blows against the invaders."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 57, 4 September 1943, Page 7
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