WAR PIPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 3

WAR PIPE

SMOKED BY M. STALIN JOINT ALLIED NOTE ON CASABLANCA. PRESENTED BY AMERICAN AMBASSADOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 27. A joint note from Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt was handed to M. Stalin, at the Kremlin by the United States Ambassador, Admiral Standley, and the British Charge d’Affaires, Lieutenant-Colonel Baggallay, simultaneously with the release of the Casablanca communique, says the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press of America.

Admiral Standley said he could not discuss the contents, but the correspondent says it is learned that the Note dealt with the British sand American war plans for 1943 . < M. Stalin looked like a man with a lot of responsibilities, but he was overjoyed about the Red Army’s success at Stalingrad, said Admiral Standley. He was smoking a pipe. “A peace pipe?” asked the correspondent. “No, by God! He was smoking a war pipe,” replied Admiral Standley. Asked whether progress was being made in the direction of appointing a Supreme Allied Command including Russia and China, Admiral Standley said, “I know nothing about that. I do not think it would work. It is difficult to conceive of a general staff able to assimilate details, and make decisions covering all phases of the war throughout the world. “There is a lot of misunderstanding about the possibilities of a joint staff I think the existing arrangement comes as near as it can to this idea by assigning the areas of responsibility.”