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Roosevelt And Vargas
Declare Dakar CannM
Become Threat Agdlfl
TVo Presidents Hold Con
ference Aboard De
stroyer At Natal
TO MAKE OCEAN SAFE
Joint Statement Reveals
Talk Of Axis Sub
Campaign
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29
President Roosevelt and
President Vargas of Brazil, in
a momentous conference
aboard a United States de
stroyer at Natal Thursday,
agreed that “it must be per
manently and definitely as
sured” that West Africa and
Dakar will never again be
come a blockade or invasion
threat to the Americas.
In Shipboard Setting
In a shipboard setting reminis
cent of that which produced the
Atlantic Charter of Mr. Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill, the
leaders of the two biggest coun
tries of North and South America
formulated a declaration holding
significant potentialities for the,
war and the peace. i
Reminiscent of the Atlantic
Charter’s pledge of freedom of the
seas for all, too, was the Roose
velt-Vargas declaration that their
two countries aim “to make the
Atlantic ocean safe for all.”
A joint statement from the two
presidents, released by the White
House tonight, made known that
the Axis submarine campaign fig
ured importantly in their conver
sations, and said, “President Var
gas announced greatly increased
efforts on the part of his country
to meet this menace.”
The meeting place of the lead
ers of the two American nations
was described in the statement as
an “unannounced location” in
Brazil. However, dispatches from
Rio de Janeiro said it was dis
closed upon Vargas’ return there
that the conferences were held
aboard a United States destroyer
anchored in the Potengai harbor
at Natal, key point on the Bra
zilian "hump” extending toward
Africa, and a trans-South Atlantic
air center.
Joining in at least some of the
conversations were Brig.-Gen. Rob
ert Walsh, commander of the South
Atlantic wing of the Air Transport
Command, and Rear Adm. Jones
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SALAMAUAGOAL
OF ALLIED PUSH
MacArthur’s Forces Now
Driving Toward Big
allied headquarters in
AUSTRALIA, SATURDAY, Jan. 30
-MV-Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
forces are pursuing strong Japan
ese patrols toward Salamaua, 140
mi!es northwest of Buna in New
Guinea, after repulsing an attack
west of Mubo, an Allied headquart
*o> communique announced today.
At. the same time an official an
nouncement said that the death of
Lieut. Gen. Tomatori Horii, who
commanded the Japanese army of
13,000 men which was practically
exterminated in months of fight
ing in the Buna area, had been con
firmed by captured documents and
Pwsoners.
The communique announcing
that New Guinea warfare was now
be,ug transferred aggressively by
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Proposal To
Salary Limit
Heard In Congress |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—(£>)—
_A concerted drive to tack on
a rider repealing President Roos
evelt’s $25,000 (after taxes) sal
ary limitation stymied action by
the House Ways .and Means
committee today on a bill to in
crease the nation’s statutory
debt limit from $125,000,000,000
to $210,000,000,000.
Rep. Gearhart (R-Calil) of
fered the repealer, and the
members forthwith decided to
postpone action on the debt
question until February 6.
Meantime, the Senate Finance
committee voted unanimously to
report a bill raising the debt
ceiling with no amendments.
Gearhart recalling that the
House committee last year voted
down a proposition to limit sal
aries to $25,000, said “the intent
of Congress was treated with in
difference” when the president
isued an executive order im
posing the limitation after the
anti-inflation law was enacted
last October.
SOLONDEMANDS
FLYNN REJECTED
Byrd Of Virginia Declares
Appointee Not Suit
able For Post
WASHINGTON. Jan, 29—(£>)—
Senator Byrd (D-Va) demanded
today that the Senate assume the
responsibility of rejecting Presi
dent Roosevelt’s appointment of
Edward J. Flynn, former Demo
cratic national chairman, as min
ister to Australia.
Byrd, who has supported the
president’s foreign policies but of
ten differed with him on domestic
issues, said in a statement that
the appointment “will not be help
ful to our war effort in the Pacific
and will be resented by our ally,
Australia, even though that gov
ernment cannot express its displea
suie.”
Byrd’s announcement that he
would vote against confirmation
boosted to 36 the number of sena
tors publicly committed in opposi
tion to the nomination, compared
with the 30 on record as favoring
it. Twenty-two Democrats and
eight Republicans remain publicly
uncommitted and apparently will
cast the deciding votes next week.
Opposition senators claim 49
members, a bare majority, will
vote against the nomination but ad
ministration strategists dispute
this, asserting they have sufficient
votes for confirmation.
The opposition of another Demo
crat, Senator McCarran of Nevada,
was revealed today when it be
came known that he had arranged
to “pair” with Senator Reynolds
CD-NC), a supporter of the nomina
tion, if McCarran fails to rerurn
to Washington from a western trip
in time to vote.
Senator Aiken (R-Vt) announced
for the first time that he would
vote against the nomination. The
opposition of Senator Millikin < R
Colo) was disclosed in arrange
ments made for him to “pair” with
Senator Scrugham (D-Nev), openly
committed to vote for Flynn, if
either is absent.
Thus, 30 Republicans and six
Democrats are committed agamst
confirmation, with 29 Democrats
and a Progressive, Senator h.a
Follette of Wisconsin, on record
ponent of the appointment, if John
been made to pair LaFollette with
Senator Johnson (R-Calif), an op
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Many Changes Made
In Extension Plans
t-ity Manager A. C. Nichols re
turned to Wilmington, Friday after
isit to Raleigh where he con
i"® wittl State Legislators Wade
Ke™on of this county. Among
matters discussed was the pro
posed extension of the city limits,
was learned.
number of changes have been
nl.me,ln tl?e city limits extension
I as originally outlined by the
f y eoundl after a series of con
e:,;‘"c«and open meetings with
ens in the affected areas, he
•*J jG.
c’,y manager said these
. ,n°es would have the effect of
ujlng fhe area proposed to be
v/nnuiT in lhe new bmits but
_ urn leave unchanged the esti
| Valuation"63363 in population and
Both the proposed legislative
bill, and a map outlining the pro
jected new boundaries of Wilming
ton, will be published as soon as
available, Mr. Nichols said.
Chief changes in the proposed
limits as outlined are:
1. Elimination of a considerable
area of marshland north of the
present limits at Smith Creek and
fronting on the Northeast branch
of the Cape Fear river.
2. Elimination of an agricultural
and dairying area east of Mercer
avenue by bringing the proposed
eastern line of the city to within
200 feet of Mercer avenue.
3. Elimination of a large tract
of woodland east of Greenfield lake
and south of the Cape Fear coun
try club.
As originally outlined, the pres
ent population of the city would be
(Continued on Png* Xwo; CoL 8).
Enemy Loses
| lital Area In
f plomonsWar
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BalBSfi • r* m m
nericans Continue Exter
mination 01 Foe On
Guadalcanal
JAP VESSELS BOMBED
Ten Zero Fighters Shot
Down With Six Prob
ably Destroyed
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—
American troops continuing
their war of extermination
against the Japanese on
Guadalcanal island captured a
large enemy command post
Wednesday, the Navy an
nounced today, while war
planes struck heavily at Japa
nese ships and base installa
tions in the central Solomons.
Navy Reveals Results
A Navy communique gave these
results of operations Wednesday
and Thursday:
Two Japanese destroyers, two
cargo ships and a tanker were
damaged by American bombing at
tack. One of the cargo ships prob
ably sank.
Thirty-six Japanese were killed
and three captured when the com
mand post was taken. Two addi
tional pockets offering resistance
were wiped out. A large amount
of enemy equipment fell into Amer
ican hands.
Ten enemy Zero fighters were
shot down with a loss of four
United States planes. Six other
Jap planes were probably destroy
Enemy installations on Kolom
bangara island were bombed by
Army medium bombers which
started a large fire at the Jap
base.
The 36 Japanese killed at the
command post raised to 715 the
number of enemy troops reported
slain in Guadalcanal fighting in
the last 10 days. In addition 48
have been reported captured. Thus
about one-iifth of the enemy troops
estimated to have been on the
island ten days ago has been put
out of action.
Japanese plane and ship losses |
in the Solomons to date, as com
piled from Navy communiques,
stand at 791 planes destroyed in
combat and 57 ships sunk, seven
probably sunk and 98 damaged.
The location of the command
post was not specified in the com
munique but a Navy spokesman
said that it probably was some
where in the four-mile strip of
coastal country between Kokum
bona and Tassafaronga. Kokumbo
na, about seven miles west of the
airfield, was captured January 23.
Tassafaronga is the next relatively
large village held by the enemy
in the line of the American ad
vance.
While American ground forces
were pushing forward Wednesday,
the enemy sent over a force of
five high-level bombeis to at
tack American base positions. Our
fighters intercepted them and the
Navy said that “incomplete re
ports indicate’’ that nine Zeros
were destroyed and six others
probably destroyed. The four
United States planes, officially list
ed as missing, were lost at that
time.
The enemy attack was completely
frustrated and none of the planes
dropped bombs
The American raid on Kolom
bangara island, about 190 nautical
miles northwest of Guadalcanal,
also was carried out Wednesday.
Marauder medium bombers with
Airacobra fighters delivered the
attack, which resulted in a large
fire, and all returned safely.
Wednesday evening Dauntless
dive bombers and Avenger torpedo
planes, protected by Wildcat fight
continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
WEATHER
FOEECAST:
North Carolina: Continued rather cold
Saturday. . .
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 a. m., 36: 7:30 a. m., 36; 1:30 p.
m 38' 7*30 p. m., 37.
Maximum 38.2; Minimum 34.6; Mean
36.4; Normal 47.
Humidity
1-30 a. m., 98; 7:30 a. m., 91; 1:30 p.
m.. 93; 7:30 p. m., 95.
Precipitation
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month, 4.40
inches.
Tides For Today
High low
Wilmington - 4:31a 11:54a
4:47p p
Masonboro Inlet- 2:04a 8:34a
2:18p P .48p
Moore’s Inlet - 2:09a 8:39p
2:23p R :53p
New Topsail Inlet- 2:14a 8:44a
(Elmore’s) - 2:28p 8:58p
(All Times Eastern Standard)
Sunrise, 7:11 a. m.; Sunset, 5:40 p. m.;
Moonrise, 1:36a; Moonset 12:41p.
(Continued on Page Two; CoL 3}.
What Hitler Planned—And What Happened
Arrows in top map show pincers on Russian oil fields and the
Middle East, toward which Axis armies in Southern Russia and
Eastern Libya were aiming seven months ago. Shading indicates
battle fronts at _ that time — June, 1942. Bottom map shows what
happened to Axis strategy. In Africa, Nazis have been driven from
Egypt to the Libyan-Tunisian border, and the British have taken
Tripoli. The Nazis face a showdown battle in Tunisia with the British,
French and Americans. In Russia the Nazis have been driven out of
large areas in the Stalingrad-Caucasus area, and the Reds are push
ing toward Kharkov and Rostov.
French African Politics i
I
Appear Still Complicated I
LONDON, Jan. 29—(A1)—French political complica
tions concerning North Africa appeared as numerous as
ever tonight after Gen. Henrl Honore Giraud declared that
he was in agreement with Gen. Charles de Gaulle only on
“liason on military, economic and financial matters” and
that no prospects of any single united French movement
existed at present.
At the same time, a member of de Gaulle’s own staff,
returning from the Casablanca meetings, forcast a revolu
tlon In metropolitan France when
the German hold there is broken
if ex-Vichy men continue to have
a part in the North African ad
ministration.
“Even General Giraud must un
derstand that," said the Fighting
French officer, Maj. Claude de
Boislambert.
Addressing a press conference at
Allied headquarters in North Afri
ca, Giraud declared ‘‘the question
of politics” had not been taken up
with de Gaulle, the Fighting French
leader, when the two were brought
to gether during the historic Roose
velt-Churchill meetings.
“There is no question of a single
united French movement through
out the world at the present time,”
said the high commissioner for
French North North and West Afri
ca.
“We are establishing a perman
ent liason on critical economic and
military questions.”
Giraud pointed out, however, that
this discussion with de Gaulle at
Casblanca was a preliminary step
to others which would be taken.
“Both de Gaulle and I have agreed
we must go progressively and me
thodiaccly in our negotiations,” he
said.
In a statement issued before the
conference, the high commissioner
brought out for the first time that
his government “does not aim at
establishing any kind of regime, but
only at assuring the best day-to-day
administration of the French terri
tories remaining free.”
“This government is the tempor
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-.
Infantile Paralysis
Tag Day Opens Here
Today is Tag Day on the
streets of Wilmington, when
young ladies will approach
shoppers for contributions to the
Infantile Paralysis campaign
fund.
“We are asking our citizens
to give liberally,” Harry L. Do
sher, chairman of the campaign
in New Hanover county said
Friday night.
"Our goal of $1,750 is far
away,” he continued. “Again I
should like to emphasize that a
gift of a dime or a dollar will
be the concrete expression of
our appreciation to President
Roosevelt on his birthday for his
efforts in our behalf; and it
will represent our interest in
stamping out the dread disease
of infantile paralysis. Without
money this year, the hard fight
to conquer' and control this dis
ease cannot be carried on to
victory.”
“For President Roosevelt, for
the health of a nation, answer
the call for dimes,” Chairman
Dosher urged.
LEND-LEASE HEAD
URGES MORE WORK
Stettinius Says Question Is
Why More Aid Not
Given Allies
WASHINGTON Jan. 20.—W—
lend-lease Administrator Edward
R. Stettinius Jr. called upon Con
gress today to maintain the mutual
aid supply lines between this na
tion and its allies for another year,
terming the lend-lease program a
vital factor in forcing an "uncon
ditional surrender” of the Axis.
As the House foreign affairs com
mittee began consideration of the
act’s renewal in peaceful contrast
to the bitter controversies of its in
ception two years ago, the white
haired administrator declared flat
ly:
"If there is any question to be
debated in connection with the lend
lease act, it is, to my mind the
question of why we have not sent
more to our Allies, not whether we
should continue to send supplies
to them.”
From young Rep. Will Rogers,
Jr., (D-Calif), a soldier on active
duty until his election to the House
and now a freshman member of the
committee, came this observation:
"I came here from the Army. I
appreciate the lend-lease because it
was aiding the men at whose side
I was going to fight. It was, so to
speak, holding my left flank and
my right flank. I was grateful to
Congress for passing it and grate
ful to you, sir, for its able admin
istration.” (
Both Republican and Democratic
committee members commended
Stettinius' outline of lend-lease
work.
"I hope you’ve noticed all the Re
publicans have said nice things
about you,” Chairman Bloom (D
NY) told the administrator w'ith a
smile.
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NOTICE
The Star-News Circula
tion Department is open
Sundays from 7 to 10 a.m.
If you fail to receive your
paper, phone 3311 before
10 and one will be sent to
you by special messenger.
After 10 o’clock, the de
partment is closed.
RUSSIAN TROOPS SLASH
HUGE GAPS IN GERMAN
RANKS NEAR VORONEZH
1 1—— -a. _
Powerful U. S. Bombing
Assault Lashes At Sfax
LONDON, Jan. 29—(m—The
Axis port of Sfax on the Tuni
sian coast, a communications
and supply point vital to the
enemy’s scheme to join the army
of Tunisia with that of Marshal
Rommel from Libya, has been
greatly damaged in the most
powerful American bombing at
tack yet delivered in the war In
North Africa.
This (unprecedented raid — a
“saturation” assualt so effec
tive that even the Italian high
command acknowledged “heavy
damage” to the port — was dis
closed today in an Allied North
Africa communique that again
reported no ground action of
consequence.
It was accompanied by word
that Rommel’s rear guard had
been under British artillery fire
in the Zuara area 35 miles short
of the Tunisian fronter. Rom
mel’s big g|uns were replying
—an indication that while his
advanced elements were far
ahead and into Tunisia he yet
had withheld forces of consider
able weight to harry the British
pursuit.
The Sfak raid, which was de
livered yesterday, was driven
home by the largest number of
planes ever sent by the 12th U.
S. Air Force against a single
target. Flying Fortresses led
off, followed and supported by
| (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
HITLER ENTERS
NEW NAZI YEAR
Dictator Of Germany Cele
brates 10th Anniver
sary Of Rise
LONDON, Jan. ’29.—Germany
in the midst of the fourth winter of
war will observe tomorrow the
tenth anniversary of Hitler’s rise to
power. (
No announcement has been made
that Hitler will speak but wartime
conditions customarily veil his ut
terances until just before he goes
to the microphone.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the propa
ganda minister, will read a proc
lamation from Hitler, possibly deal
ing with the tqital mobilization of
the civilian pojlulation — a move
announced yesterday which drafts
all men from 16 to 68 and all wo
men from 17 to 45.
The anniversary of Hitler’s ap
pointment as chancellor by Presi
dent Paul von Hindenburg has been
a favorite occasion for Hitler ora
tory.
Last year he poured out praise
for the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor, blamed the Russian winter
for German reverses in the east
and promised that 1942 “will again
be a year of great victories.”
On January 30, 1941, he declared:
“When the hour comes we will give
the decisive blows • . • and the
gentlemen will have to acknowledge
this historical fact in the course of
the war.” (
On January 30 1940: “For centu
ries Germany and Russia have liv
ed side by side in peace. Why
shouldn’t that be possible in the
future? I believe it will be possible
if both nations want it.”
On the 1939 anniversary, eight
months before he invaded Poland
Hitler said: “For the fifth time the
anniversary of the non-aggression
pact with Poland is approaching.
All true friends of peace will today
probably hardly agree with the val
ue of this agreement. I believe in a
long peace.”
Goebbels will read the proclama
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Nazi Submarine Base
At Brest Is Pounded
By U. S. And British
LONDON Jan. 29.—M>>—Am
erican-built Boston bombers
joined In tbe air offensive
against Axis V - boats today
when, as part of big daylight
sweeps over occupied territory,
they struck at tbe railway life
line running across France to
the German submarine base at
Brest.
Their target was the impor
tant 300-foot high viaduct at
Morlaix in Brittany, over which
runs the main rail track to
Brest. An Air Ministry commu
nique did not disclose the results
of the raid.
In other daylight sweeps —
which cost Britain one bomber
and three fighters and the Ger
mans five fighters, including
two Junkers 88s in the Bay of
Biscay—American medium bom
bers smashed at objectives in
Ijmuiden, Holland; Spitfires
kept up attacks on communica
tions in northern France and
Belgium, shooting up trains and
barges; and torpedo bombers
sank a large German supply
ship off Norway.
Authoritative sources disclos
ed that Britain has a new naval
torpedo aircraft which will be
an additional improvement in
her fleet air arm. j
The plane, which is a new de
velopment, is a monoplane, but
no other details were disclosed.
It will replace the high light
biplane.
LOCK FEATURED
IN FLYNN CASE
State Tries To Disprove
Statement About Un
locked Door
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29—l.TI—
The state today called a rebuttal
witness at Errol Flynn's trial on
statutory rape charges in an effort
to disprove defense contentions re
garding a bedroom lock in the house
where blond Betty Hansen charges
the actor was Intimate with her
last September 27.
Sgt Leland Jones, police chem
ist, testified that two days ago he
found scratches like those made by
a file on the shank of the inner
latch on the door of the “blue bed
room" in the Bel Air home of Fred
McEvoy, oil man and part-time ac
tor.
Betty previously testified that
while she and Flynn were in the
room, the actor approached the door
and she heard a click “but didn’t
know whether he was locking the
door or not.” Lynn Boyer, singer,
said she tried the door from the
other side but couldn't open it.
Sgt. Jones declared today that
last Wednesday he found not only
file or saw marks on the shank of
the latch but also evidence that
the screws holding the latch to the
door had been turned. He said
he found a tiny flake of metal on
the carpet.
Defense Attorney Jerry Giesler
drew from the officer the admis
sion that he couldn’t tell how long
the scratch marks had been there,
and that the friction of turning the
latch could have caused the bit of
metal to fall to the floor.
The state also called an astrono
mer to testify about the moon’s
course on August 3, 1941, when
Peggy la Rue Satterlee, 16 year old
Hollywood showgirl, charges Flynn
molested her aboard his yacht Si
rocco. She testified this happened
after he invited her below deck to.
"see the moon through a porthole.’’
To dispute defense testimony
that the moon was too high in the
sky that night to be seen through
such an aperture, C. H. Cleminshaw,
acting director of the Griffith ob
servatory, was questioned about the
moon’s highest point.
“It’s greatest distance above the
horizon was about 37 degrees, or
a little more than one-third of the
distance from the horizon to the
Zenith,” said the astronomer, who
illustrated his testimony with a blue
celestial globe.
Peggy’s sister, Mickey June Sat
terlee, 18, testified concerning Peg
gy’s first meeting with Flynn.
Mickey related, in substance, that
Buster Wiles, the actor’s friend, told
her Flynn “wanted a girl friend
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SMASH MANY UNITS
Kill, Rout Or Trap Seven
Enemy Divisions In
[Three Days
MANY TROOPS TAKEN
Latest Successes Run Total
Of Captured Up; Reds
Push Onward
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 29—Tear
ing huge gaps in Axis puppet
ranks west of Voronezh, the
Red army has killed, routed,
or trapped seven enemy divi
sions in three days, and run
its captive toll to nearly
10.000 prisoners since mid
January, Moscow announced
tonight in a special communi
que recorded here by the Sov
iet radio monitor.
In the Caucasus the Rus
sians overran the Kuban
stronghold of Kropotkin, 130
miles below Rostov, and swept
on toward Tikhoretsk, key rail
junction 35 miles farther
north, the Russians said.
Russians Announce News
In a lengthy special bulletin the
Russians announced these results
on the Voronezh front, which now
has been expanded to include the
lower par. of the central front:
Advances of 24 to 31 miles on
a 43-mrile front in three days, put
ting the Bed army w’ithin 75 miles
of Kursk, and 55 miles of Bel
gorod, two key Axis "hedgehog’'
bases on the Kursk-Kharkov rail
way.
The killing of 12,000 Axis troops,
and the capture of 14,500. Up to
Thursday, the communique said,
86.000 Axis troops had been cap
tured since the Voronezh offensive
began January 13.
The capture today of Novy-Oskol,
55 miles east of Belgorod, in which
an entire Italian Alpine corps was
wiped out or taken prisoner. The
prisoner toll was 11,000 Italians,
including the divisional command
ers, Generals Battista, Pascalini,
and Umerci, and their staffs.
This raised the grand total of
prisoners to 97,000. Axis deaths
on the battlefield, reckoned in
many thousands but not yet dis
closed by the Russians, would put
the Axis casualties in killed or
captured well beyond 100,000.
More than 200 localities have
been recaptured by the Russians
above and below the 50-mile rail
way between Voronezh and Kas
tornoye on the line running to
Kursk.
This has been done in three
days, the communique said. This
front had been manned mostly by
Rumartiars, Hungarians. Italians,
and other satellite troops, but the
seven Ax’s divisions that were
routed, killed or now are being
annihilated in this area were Ger
man, the communique said.
They were listed as the 383rd,
82nd, 340th, 377th, 32rd, 57th and
68th Nazi infantry divisions. Added
to these were one regiment of the
45th' division and a regiment of
the 299th.
“The remainder of these forma
tions and units are tightly encir
l cled and are being wiped out by
our troops in the area east of
Kastomoye,” the communique
said.
The presence of so many Ger
man divisions in this area indi
cated the NaziF were rushing re
inforcements to bolster the sag
ging lines of their puppet troops.
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Walter Lippmann Says:
Allied Chiefs Now Able
ToDo WhatThey Decide
By WALTER LIPPMANN
It will be most interesting to
hear what Goebbels, who has to
make a speech .on Saturday for
Hitler, has to say about the Roose
velt - Churchill meeting in Casa
blanca. For as a result of what
has happened since the beginning
of November, all men know that
the Allied chieftains are now able
to do what they decide to do. The
plans which were made in Wash
ington at the end of June were
carried out by the 8th Army at
El Alarnein the last week of Oc
'tober. The plans which were adopt
ed in London early in August were
carried out by General Eisenhow
er’s forces at the beginning of No
vember. The exchange of plans
and views which took place later
in August when Mr. Churchill went
to see Mr. Stalin in Moscow has
in part at least been disclosed by
the Russian winter offensive and
! the two African campaigns which
are now merging.
Events have proved that the Al
lies now have the mean* to wage
war, and that in their long ordeal
of defeats and disasters their lead
ers have learned how to wage war.
Thus, when Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.
Churchill speak confidently, as
they certainly did at Casablanca,
they no longer depend upon faith
alone but upon the authority of
great deeds successfully done. The
people of the world have learned
from the timetables of the past
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