ATTACK ON GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1941, Page 5

ATTACK ON GERMANY

FROM EAST AND WEST BACKED BY WHOLE U.S.A. ARMS OUTPUT REPORTED DISCUSSION IN WASHINGTON. THE PROBLEM OF ASSISTING RUSSIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright, NEW YORK. September 27. The Washington correspondent of the ork “ Herald-Tribune'’ reports Ilial a plan whereby the United States will divert virtually 1(H) per cent ol its munitions output to Britain and Russia for the next 90 days to make possible an attack on Germany from both east and west is under consideration by President Roosevelt and liis defence advisers. Up to the present the lend-lease effort has been based on what President Roosevelt described as a rule-of-thumb formula by which one-half of the output is shipped abroad and the balance reserved for the United States f army and navy. The ‘Herald Tribune” says the plan, which might permit Britain to launch attacks on her own account from Murmansk to Morocco and thus establish a second front against Hitler, may be discussed with Congressional leadersj when the President confers with them concerning revision or repeal of the Neutrality Act. The paper adds that President Roosevelt’s contemplated plan has been the subject of behind-the-scene discussions involving high-ranking officers of the British and American General Staffs. Full-scale American aid to Russia is delayed because of difficulty in obtaining from Moscow full details of the Soviet’s position, says the ‘New York Times" Washington correspondent. President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill insist on having this information as a prerequisite tor the proper supplying of Russia’s needs. The United States and Britain have refused thus far to release their most secret defence weapons to Russia. British and American observers are permitted to visit only isolated parts' of the Russian front. There is no sign whatever that M. I Stalin is weakening in his determination to fight Germany to the finish, but he appears reluctant to put all his eggs in the British and American basket ' the correspondent says. .