ALLIED LEADERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1943, Page 3

ALLIED LEADERS

LONG CONFERENCE HELD IN CAIRO CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT & CHIANG KAI-SHEK. MEETING WITH SOVIET PREMIER TO FOLLOW. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) NEW YORK, December 1. A Reuter dispatch from Lisbon states that President Roosevelt, Mr-Churchill and President Chiang- Kai-shek have completed a long conference in Cairo and arc now en route to Persia to meet Premier Stalin. The New York -Herald-Tribune’s” Washington correspondent says the Cairo talks were undoubtedly limited to discussion of the Campaign against Japan,' since Britain, America and China are warring against her while Russia is neutral. OLD PROCEDURE IN REPORTING CONFERENCE. QUESTIONED BY BR ELMER ' DAVIS. NEW YORK, December 1. The Office of War Information broadcast to France by short wave the full text of Reuter’s dispatch from Lisbon, which stated that the three leaders “held a long conference in Cairo. A joint communique will be issued in the course cf this week. During the conference all communicatione were cut between Cairo and the rest of the world. One meeting was held in a tent under the shadow of the Pyramids. . . “Mr Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who was accompanied by Madame Chiang, made the trip by plane and Mr Churchill by ship. “The three leaders are now heading for an unknown destination to meet Premier Stalin.” The “Herald-Tribune’s” Washington correspondent says the American news and Government information agencies had no information of the Cairo meeting. all the news about it emanating from British sources. It was noted that Reuter had not distributed the dispatch in Britain but had send it via London to New York by normal radio transmission. The head of the Office of War Information, Mr Elmer Davis, voiced his indignation over the dispatch. If there were an official conference any announcement would, according to precedent, be issued simultaneously to all the interested capitals, he said.” Whether or not Reuter’s announcement relates to any such official conference, it is equally reprehensible. If official, it is a violation of the agreed arrangement for simultaneous international release in such cases, and if unofficial it is an injurious piece of fiction.” "If the Lisbon report is correct, we can expect important good news in the next few days,” says the “New York Times” in an editorial. “The long-plan-ned personal meeting between the four Allied leaders will supply the last clinching proof that the last weapon in the enemy's arsenal—the political weapon of divide and conquer—has been knocked from the aggressors' hands.” “The stage is certainly set for climatic action and for fresh consideration of the military and political problems of the war. No matter how skilfully and competent the aides handled the recent Moscow conference questions now arise which can be dealt with successfully only by the four supreme leaders face to face.” OFFICIAL DECLARATION

PROSECUTION OF THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN. LIBERATION OF ALL STOLEN TERRITORIES. <By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, December 1. President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mr Churchill, together with their respective military and diplomatic advisers, have completed a conference in North Africa, states an official communique issued in Cairo. All the principals in the conference have now left Cairo for an unknown destination. The following general statement has been issued: — “The several military missions agreed upon future military operations against Japan. The three great Allies expressed their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemy by sea, land and air. This pressure is already rising. The three great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves, and have no thought of territorial expansion. It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she seized or occupied after the beginning of the first world war in 1914, and that all the territories which Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed. The three great Powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent. With these objectives in view, the three Allies, in harmony with those of the United Nations at war with Japan, will continue to persevere in the serious and prolonged operations which are necessary to procure the unconditional surrender of Japan.”