LONG WAY TO GO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1943, Page 3

LONG WAY TO GO

ROOSEVELT ON VICTORY OVER ITALY WAR MUST NOT HALT t■ ■ - TIME FOR CELEBRATION NOT YET COME. BIG & TOUGH TASKS FACED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, September 9. Neither military quarters nor the White House, a Washington message states, encouraged extreme jubilation. Aides reported that Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt both received the news in a mat-ter-of-fact manner. They had known, of course, for several days of the Italian Government’s acceptance of the armistice terms, but they could not be certain the Nazis would not prevent Badoglio from issuing his proclamation. Mr Roosevelt, in .a broadcast, declared: ‘The Italian’ armistice is a great victory, but we must drive the Germans out of Italy, and also out of France and all the other captive countries, and we must strike them on their own soil from all directions. The ultimate objectives of the war continue to be Berlin and Tokio. Don’t forget, we still have a long way to go before attaining these big objectives. The great news you have heard from General Eisenhower does not give licence to settle back in our rocking-chairs and say, ‘We have them on the run now, and we can start the celebration.’ The time has not come for celebration.

“The war must not halt for a single moment. Mr Churchill and I have seen the satisfactory fulfilment of the plans which were made at Casablanca, and we have made new and extensive plans for the future, but throughout the conference we have not lost sight of the fact that the war will become bigger and tougher rather than easier during the long months to come.” Mr. La Guardia, New York’s Italian mayor, said: ‘lt’s the best news in a long time.” He added that he thought the European phase was nearing its end. > HUNGARY UNEASY.

The Budapest correspondent of the Swedish “Svenska Dagbladet,” says that immediately after the news of Italy’s capitulation, the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, summoned his chiefs of staff, and an important declaration is expected to be made today.