UNITED NATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1942, Page 4

UNITED NATIONS

ON VERGE OF PASSING TO OFFENSIVE IN EUROPE AND PACIFIC. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. “The United Nations are on the verge of passing to the offensive.” says the Washington correspondent of the “Herald-Tribune.” He adds that the belief was stronger than ever during the weekend and that a second front in Europe would be opened before long and that, the United States was preparing offensive strokes in the Pacific as well. The correspondent quotes a leading article of the “Army and Navy Journal,” in which the belief is expressed that Admiral Leahy, who has just been appointed Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt, will have “a real command,” and that his appointment marks the first step towards a unified High Command, which in turn is a pre-requisite for an invasion of Europe. The “Herald-Tribune” finds another indication in a broadcast made by the Fighting France chief in the United States, M. Adrien Trixiern, who said the French people were now ready to give constructive aid to British and American invaders. “The Axis knows that a revolt is secretly being prepared, and that it will burst out on the day the Allies land,” said M. Trixiern.