SECOND FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1942, Page 4

SECOND FRONT

THE ALLIED COMMUNIQUE IN JUNE QUESTIONED BY CHURCHILL AND EDEN. ACCORDING TO WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 22. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent, Mr Arthur Krock, says the British authorities permit publication of the ract that Messrs Churchill and Eden expressed doubts to President Roosevelt about the sentence in the joint British-American communique of June 12. announcing that a full understanding had been reached regarding the urgency of creating a second front in Europe in 1942. They debated over the radio-telephone the form of this sentence, to which had been ascribed disappointment of the Russian armies and people that no British-American invasion of the continent has been attempted. Washington surmises that the British want the public to know that any unfulfilled optimism the phraseology aroused was apprehended at the time by the British Government. Nevertheless, such vague implications as the communique conveyed were not left with M. Molotov or his colleagues in Moscow, or with M. Lityinov. The best explanation is that the President was deliberately indulging in the war of nerves which the Nazis hitherto had monopolised, when he approved the language of the communique.