CHURCHILL & ROOSEVELT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1943, Page 4

CHURCHILL & ROOSEVELT

MOMENTOUS TEN DAY CONFERENCE IN MOROCCO Complete Agreement Reached on Offensive Plans TO BRING ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF AXIS POWERS ALL POSSIBLE AID TO RUSSIA AND CHINA (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.50 pan.) LONDON, January 2fi. COMPLETE AGREEMENT ON FOUR WAR PLANS FOR 1943 TO BRING ABOUT TH|= “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” OF THE GERMANS, ITALIANS AND JAPANESE WAS ANNOUNCED AFTER A TEN DAY CONFERENCE AT CASABLANCA, IN MOROCCO, BETWEEN THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER (MR CHURCHILL) AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. M. STALIN WAS INVITED, BUT WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND BECAUSE OF THE NECESSITY OF HIS REMAINING IN RUSSIA DURING THE PRESENT OFFENSIVE. M. STALIN AND GENERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK WERE KEPT INFORMED OF THE CONFERENCE DECISIONS. Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt met Generals de Gaulle and Giraud, who expressed agreement with their decisions and also agreement between themselves. Mr Churchill’s party included Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Firsjt Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the General Staff; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff; Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, and Sir John Dill, former Chief of the General Staff. President Roosevelt’s party included General Marshall, United States Chief of Staff; Admiral King, Chief of the United States Naval Staff; General Arnold, Commander of the American Army Air Force, and Mr Harry Hopkins. Others participating in the various meetings were Mr A. . V.- Alexander, British First Lord of the Admiralty; General Montgomery, commander of the Eighth Army; Air Marshal Tedder and General Eisenhower, Allied Cbmmander-in-Chief in North Africa. President Roosevelt flew to Africa. It is the first time since the days of Lincoln that an American President has visited an active war front. MR ROOSEVELT TOLD CORRESPONDENTS THAT THEY HAD REACHED THE CONCLUSION THAT WORLD. PEACE WAS ATTAINABLE ONLY BY THE TOTAL ELIMINATION OF GERMAN AND JAPANESE POWER, WHICH MEANT UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER FROM THE AXIS. THIS DID NOT MEAN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POPULATIONS OF AXIS COUNTRIES, BUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR PHILOSOPHY OF HATE, FEAR AND THE SUBJUGATION OF OTHERS. THEI CHIEFS OF STAFF HAD KEPT TWO PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS BEFORE THEM—-FIRSTLY, THE PRINCIPLE OF POOLING ALLIED RESOURCES ON A WORLD-WIDE -BASIS; SECONDLY, MAINTAINING THE ALLIES’ INITIATIVE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE PRESIDENT ADDED THAT A WORLD-WIDE OFFENSIVE WOULD BE VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED AND THAT ALL POSSIBLE AID WOULD BE GIVEN TO RUSSIA AND CHINA. MR CHURCHILL SAID IT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT WAR CONFERENCE HE HAD EVER WITNESSED OR ATTENDED. NOTHING WHICH HAD HAPPENED THROUGHOUT THE WAR COULD COME BETWEEN HIM AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. THEY WERE LINKED BY A FRIENDSHIP WHICH WAS ONE OF THE ALLIES’ STRONGEST SINEWS OF WAR, MAKING POSSIBLE THINGS WHICH OTHERWISE WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE BETWEEN THE HEADS OF THE ALLIED NATIONS. MR CHURCHILL PRAISED THE GREAT ENTERPRISE OF THE AFRICAN ATTACK, IN WHICH HE WAS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S WILLING LIEUTENANT AND WHICH HAD ALTERED THE ,WHOLE STRATEGIC OUTLOOK. IT PLACED THE INITIATIVE IN THE ALLIES' HANDS AND NOW THAT THEY HAD THAT PRECIOUS AND SOVEREIGN TREASURE IN THEIR HANDS THEY MUST LABOUR HARD TO KEEP IT. MR CHURCHILL EMPHASISED THE THOROUGHNESS OF THE PROFESSIONAL DISCUSSIONS ACCOMPANYING THE CONFERENCE AND EXPRESSED THE ALLIES’ UNCONQUERABLE WILL TO PURSUE THE WAR TO “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”

EVE OF EVENTS

ANTICIPATIONS IN UNITED STATES DISCUSSIONS OF WIDE SCOPE, EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 26. A highly important announcement on Allied war strategy is expected hourly. The New York radio says: “We are on the eve of great military and political events, which will alter the whole strategy of the war.” Some American newspapers say the announcement, which will be made simultaneously in Washington and London, will be the most dramatic of the war. According to the “New York Sun’s” Washington correspondent, a complete understanding on Allied leadership has been reached. Changes in the North African political situation are also expected. Mr Hanson Baldwin, writing in the “New York Times,” says the sweeping Russian victories and reports from London and Washington of strategic conversations on the highest levels, demonstrate that the course, and perhaps the duration, of the war is now being determined. It is reported that an Allied conference may remedy the present lack of a global strategy and solve several problems, the most important of which are, firstly, the crea-

tion of a Supreme War Council, on which Britain, the United States, Russia and China would be represented; secondly, the resumption of the offensive in the Pacific; thirdly, the allocation of supplies to China and Russia; and, fourthly, the creation of a second front in Europe.