SECOND FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1942, Page 4

SECOND FRONT

DEMANDS IN UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DECLINES TO BE DRAWN. SOME SHARP CRITICISM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 22. President Roosevelt, at a Press conference, declined to discuss the possibilities of a second front in Europe. He smilingly rebuked a reporter who asked what could be done to relieve German pressure on Russia. The President said he could, but would not answer that question. The “New York Times,” in a sharplyworded leader, takes both Britain and the United States to task for not seizing the undreamt-of opportunity presented to Hitler’s enemies by his attack on Russia, although thirteen, months have elapsed, and calls the British and American results profoundly disappointing. The “New York Times” reserves its sharpest criticism for the United States, saying its contribution is pathetically small for the greatest nation in the, world, more than seven months after it.entered into the war. and more than sixteen months after the Lease-Lend programme was put into effect. The paper demands a unified command at the top, both in Britain and the United States. The “New York Daily News” demands that Britain should open a European front and that the United States should concentrate on Japan. The Berlin radio, commenting on the possibility of a second front, said: “We accept that threat calmly. The enemy will receive such a reception that he will lose all his liking for further attempts to invade Europe.”