LATE SITTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 2

LATE SITTING

ROOSEVELT=CHURCHILL CONFERENCE DISCUSSION OF ALLIED STRATEGY. THE EXPANSION OF WAR PRODUCTION. LONDON, December 23. The conference at the White House yesterday between President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill lasted until one o’clock in the morning. For most of the time the. two men were in the President’s study. The conference is to be continued later today. Yesterday President Roosevelt had a telephone conversation with the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King. With the approval of President Roosevelt, the American-Canadian Joint Munitions Board is calling for an all-out production effort by. the two countries, and the removal of any obstacles standing in the way. President Roosevelt said victory would require a maximum output in both countries in the shortest possible time. Speed and volume rather than monetary cost must be the primary consideration. The President is calling for the removal of any factors, including tariffs and regulations, that impede the free flow of supplies between the two countries.

The first meeting of the Joint War Council is to be held today. Those attending it will include Lord Beaverbrook (Minister of Supply), Admiral Sir Dudley Pound (First Sea Lord), Sir Charles Portal (Chief of the Air Staff) and Field-Marshal Sir John Dill representing Britain, and Colonel F. Knox (Secretary of Navy), Mr H. L. Stimson (Secretary of War), and Mr Harry Hopkins, representing the United States, besides service chiefs.