Allies to Maintain Initiative
In 1943, FR, Churchill Agree;
Aid Promised Russia, China
' A (Continued from Page 1) A r
unprecedented in history, while the prime minister chimed, in to add
that they surpassed anything in his World war one experience.
., i One of the main decisions of the conference was to tend all
, material aid to the Russians, who are draining; German man-
i power and war materials, the president said, and he added that
if China was to get a foU measure of help to end forever the
.. Japanese attempt to dominate the Far East.!; f -
The president : said "uncondi
tional surrender of Germany, It
aly, and Japan did not mean de
struction of the 1 populations- but
destruction of the philosophy of
these countries based on conquest
and reigns of terror.'-'
All resources of the United Na
'jUons have been pooled and will
m , . . .s .
pe aamuusierea accoraing w one
central plan decided upon at the
conference, the president , said,
but he gave no hint of when or
where 'the ' military strength of
the United Nations would smash
'.against the axis. , -
The president and 'prime mln
lster stressed the strength of their
friendship and Churchill said
nothing had ever come between
him and the president.
In speaking of the allied land-
lags la North Africa, tha prime
minister, after the president had
finished the first part of the
oaf erenee, said this great en
terprise had altered the whole
-strategy of the war and given
the aUles an initiative which
they would never lose.
' ' In discussing the fighting in
the middle east, Churchill de
, scribed Marshal Erwin Rommel
as a fugitive from Egypt who
now would like to pose as the
deliverer of Tunisia, but said the
'Eighth army would never let go
of him.
That the 10-day conference had
developed the long-discussed al
lied master battle plan for the
war was clear in both the presi
dent's and prime minister's state'
ments.
Churchill, waving his cigar,
declared that despite the fact that
there may be some delay at times,
there is a design and purpose and
unconquerable will to enforce
"unconditional surrender" , upon
' the criminals who plunged the
world into war. -
. Churchill, wearing , an Ameri
can distinguished service order
given him by Gen. John J. Per
shing in the first World war, de
clared the present conference had
surpassed anything In his long ex-
perienee.
The president and prime min-
ister repeated the words of the
communique describing the Gi
- raud - DeGaulle meeting, saying
"tho-W flt tha. mnnuml "mart i
opportune to invite General -.Gi-
xaud to confer with the combined
-chiefs of staff and to arrange a
: meeting between nim and Gen
. eral De Gaulle. ?
President Roosevelt praised
- the valor of French flxhtin
men, pintln- mm they lay side
by side . with Americans in
" roves In Africa, but now stand
united In eommoa cause.
The president toward the end
.Of the press conference said of
his visit to the field troops that
he was the first president to go
to the eastern hemisphere since
the visit of President Wood row-
Wilson in 1919.
"I have seen the bulk of sev
.eral divisions," the president said.
permitting himself to be directly
quoted, "I have eaten lunch in
the field and it was a darn good
.lunch, too.
' The president said American
troops were - equipped with the
'best weapons in the world, weap
ons superior to anything the ene-
jmy had developed.
"They had a band at one place
I visited which played for lunch."
he said. "It was a good band but
1 had to move upwind so I could
hear it."
He said he had visited Port
Lyautey, where some of the heavi
.est fighting took place, and placed
f wreaths on the graves of American
soldiers. : '
- - Waving- his finger at eorre
, spoadents seated la a semlelrela
I ta front of bins, he said. "Our
. soldiers are eager to carry en
the fight and I want yon to tell
. the folks back home that I am
1 proud of them." . ; . V
. The president in conclusion said
America was determined to help
!the French civilians in north Af
rica with food and clothing until
ysuch time -as . they could - recover
.from" the stripping t done by the
He said he had given a dinner
.for the sultan of Morocco, and his
son and had gotten on extremely
well with both of them.
. '. At the moment he was finger
ing what is probably the most
, rare autograph book in the world.
It is bound ,In leather and eon-
. tains the signature of all those
dignitaries attending' the confer-
tence. '
'.'. .The book would go to the gov
: eminent , museum at Hyde Park,
;the president said.
t In flying to the meeting Presi
dent Roosevelt was In a plane for
the first time since 1932, when
'ne flew to the national democratic
.convention - in ; Chicago upon re
.reiving the! presidential , nomina
tion; '-r' ;? -.
He was aeeempaaled to Afrt-
ca by Gen. George C Marshall,
. chief of staff f. the United
-States army: AdnC Ernest J.
King, chief of naval operations;
- XL Gen. Henry C Arnold, chief -
;. .m9 iiim mnrtnr a l tnrrmm' anil tlar'
ry Cop tins; White House aide. ;
: Pnme Minister Churchill was
accompanied by Adm. Sir Dudley
Pound, first sea lord 'and chief of
Britain's naval staff; Gen. Sir
Alan Francis Brooke, chief of the
imperial staff; Air Marshal Sir
Charles : Portal, chief of the air
staff; Vice-Adm. Lord Louis
Mountbatten, chief of combined
operations (commandos) ; and
Field' Marshal Sir John Dill.
Also participating in the con
ferences wert Lt; Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, commander-in-chief
of the AEF In north Africa; Maj.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of
American and RAF air operations
in that theatre; and three leading
figures in the British drive against
Marshal Rommel Gen. Sir Har
old Alexander, British comman
der-in-chief of the middle east;
Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery,
commander of the British Eighth
army; and Air Chief Marshal Sir
Arthur Tedder, vice chief of Brit
ish air forces.
Russians Slay
Many Nazis
B (Continued from Page 1) B
ezh front southwest on the
proaches to Kharkov in
Ukraine.
ap
the United States Infantry crept
through reeky, shrub - spotted
hills on the Tunisian front Mon
day morning and occupied an
Important pass which snakes its
war around mountain peaks
called Djebel Er Rlhana and
DJebel Al Haifa, and leads to
the coastal plain.
The position, which commands
the wide, flat stretches of the
Ousseltia valley, was taken from
ill -equipped French troops by a
nazi attack last week.
' The Americans, veterans of the
November landing as well as pre
vious fighting in northern Tunis
ia, were keyed for a showdown
battle but found that the enemy
had pulled out In the night, giv
ing them uncontested possession.
The successful move followed
several days of stiff fighting In
this area which developed when
the Americans were thrown, In to
stem the tide of the advancing
Germans.
At least IS German tanks
were reported destroyed and
seven tS millimeter runs
knocked mL Quantities of am
munition. fd aad other small
stores were left behind when
the nails fled.
' At the eastern end of the Afri
can front the British Eighth army
drove on toward the Tunisian
Mareth line behind which consid
erable of Rommel's forces alrea
dy had been deployed.
Private and
Waiter Tell
Train Events
ALBANY Ore, Jan. 26.-(P-A
marine private and a negro
dining car waiter Tuesday night
told investigators of events aboard
a speeding train on which a
prominent young Norfolk, Va,
woman was killed as she lay in
lower 13 of a sleeper.
The two, Pvt. Harold R. Wil
son, 22, Buckley, Wash., a passen
ger, and . Waiter John Funches,
30, Oakland, Calif, were ques
tioned by a dozen Southern Pa
cific agents, state policemen and
sheriffs officers who were pool
ing Information gathered along
the 1800-mile route of the train
through Oregon and California.
The officers sent Deputy Sher
iff Clay Kirk to Los Angeles to
pick up a third man held for ques
tioning; Robert Folkes, negro cook
on the train.
The investigators stayed In ses
sion late Tuesday night without
announcing any new develop
ments, i
Linn County Dist Atty. Harlow
L Weinrick, who took charge of
the case, disclosed only these new
details: . - "
The comely victim, Mrs. Martha
Virginia Brinson James, 2L was
fatally 'slashed across the throat
by , a right-handed man as the
train rolled through Linn county
early Saturday morning. ,
' A sharp knife, possibly a pocket
knife, was used, -and the blow was
vicious,' It penetrated from the
left ear to the throat so deeply
that a bone was reached.
Weinrick said the kfller was in
such a position that little, if any,
blood got on his clothing. ' -c
)v This explained the police failure
in four days . of search to find
blood-stained clothing! they
thought might lead to the assail
ant, i t '; lyf Jji" ? i -Sr- ti :-
Meanwhile bail was set at $5000
each for three men held for ques
tioning. : 'r:::i'':-Z'-:--
From the exchange of informa
tion Weinrick hoped to uncover a
motive for 'the slaying. Police
have established that Mrs. James
wasjaeither robbed nor raped. '
Tha
Veterans' Aid
Gets Attention
Legion's Proposals -Explained;
Taxing i
Problems Talked
D (Continued from Page 1) P
war I veterans; but Sen. ; Dean
Walker, Polk, admonished careful
consideration as to "where the
money would come from." ! ; Sen.
Lee Patterson, Multnomah, sug
gested that the enabling constitu
tional amendment should be ob
tained before the farm and home
loan legislation was enacted. e
The civil ' service ' bill proposes
to establish a merit- system for
all state employes with the ex
ception of elected officers, ap
pointed commissioners, their im
mediate assistants, the governor's
staffj legislative staff, certain ap
prentice or part-time employes,
and professional workers includ
ing educators and lawyers em
ployed as such. m
The measure, voluminous and
well-supplied with co-sponsors,
was introduced in the lower house.
It is backed by the American Fed
eration of State, County and Mu
nicipal Employes, represented here
by Allan Bynon, former state
senator, but is said to represent
quite closely the views also of tha
League of Women Voters.
It sets up a department of civil
service and provides for specific
classifications of employes both as
to degree and type of skill, with
uniform pay within each classifi
cation. Persons on the state pay
roll January 1, 1943, would auto
matically be classified without
examination, unless discharged
within six months after the bfll
became law.
Returning veterans of the
present war would have 2)4
points preference, S points If
disabled In service. In future ex
animations; but some legislators
said the "freezing of present
staffs would greatly reduce the
number of vacancies probably
available to service men after
the war. There also was objec
tion to the lnclnsiveness of the
The house taxation and revenue
committee, continuing its series of
meetings devoted to aspects of the
tax , problem, heard from Earl
Fisher; of the tax commission, an
analysis of federal income tax de
ductions' bearing upon state in
come tax returns this year and
next Fisher declared however, in
response to a question, that no
reliable forecast of actual receipts
could be made, though the com
mission has based its calculations
upon the assumption there would
be little change. ,
Fisher declared that this would
be "a most inopportune time" to
reduce income tax rates, pointed
out that for large taxpayers the
state income tax is "insignificant'
because if it did not exist they
would have to pay almost the
same amount more to the federal
government, and expressed opin
ion that the Ruml pay-as-you-go
plan would not be desirable for
state adoption because of the ad
ditional bookkeeping. He said ex
perience with' Bonneville construc
tion employes convinced him
there would be comparatively
slight loss from transient workers
leaving the state before taxpaying
time. Out of 10,000 Bonneville
workers not more than 300, he
estimated, who owed income tax
to the state failed to pay.
Discussing a possible formula
for income tax redaction, legis
lators present seemed most in
terested in eliminating the "split
bracket" created In 1939 by set
ting the first rate increase at
$5aa taxable income rather than
$1800. Fisher estimated this
would reduce total annual re
ceipts $1.50e,Aa.
Spokesmen for organized labor,
for the grange, Farmers union
and League of Oregon' Counties,
all expressed opposition to income
tax reduction, favoring Instead
property tax reduction and .the
creation of a reserve as a cushion
against post-war taxation.
Co-op
Trial to Open"
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan.
Federal Judge Claude McCulloch
Tuesday directed reopening of the
anti - trust trial of the Oregon
Dairy Cooperative association;
The trial, in which the associa
tion is accused of attempting mo
nopoly in the Portland milk mar
ket, was adjourned in November
after presentation of prosecution
testimony, j ,,j ; vp:
McCulloch i ordered arguments
for Thursday on whether coopera
tives could be held guilty of such
a charge.
250 Said Shot
In Marseille
" ' LONDON, y Janl p 2S.-(flVTwo
hundred 'fifty.. French Inhabitants
of Marseflle--including ' 80 f wom
en were reported Tuesday night
to nave been shot during the state
of "siege ordered by the nazis to
clear 40,000 persons from the laby
rinths of the city's historic port
district ; ' ; " Vv '! v;V---":
; A dispatch' to.'fhe Swiss Jour
nal de Geneve, quoted by Reuters,
Implied nazi guns were turned on
violators of an order making the
steep, dark, narrow streets of the
port a" forbidden area, V. - t
Dairy
OrjTGGn STATTSMSII. CdTeia.
Tanks Entering Tripoli Today
This Is Tripoli, Libya, and German; tanks are rolling into the town. The picture was taken last AprlL
The same picture could be taken today, with one important change British tanks entering the town.
The British Eighth Army, routing the Axis Afrika Korps of Field Marshal Erwin Krwnm has entered
President Inspects
Troops in French Morocco
By WALTER ' LOGAN J
Btpi owntlng American Newspaper Correspondents ta North Africa
(THstributed by The Associated Press)
CASABLANCA, Jan. 21-(Delayed)-President Roosevelt, the
first American chief executive to leave ! the United States in
wartime and the first to fly the Atlantic, today inspected Ameri
can troops in French Morocco, surprising them by his presence
and leaving their faces wreathed
in smiles.
The president reviewed the
troops. from a jeep driven by Staff
Sgt Oran Lass, from Kansas City,
Mo., who was the proudest soldier
in the US army but maintained an
air of impeccable dignity through
out In the jeep with the president
were Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark,
commander of the US Fifth army;
Charles Fredericks, the president's
personal bodyguard, and the gen
eral officer commanding during
the inspection of the troops.
Immediately behind the presi
dential Jeep was another with
bodyguards and the following
Jeep contained Maj. Gen. George
8. Fatten, Jr commanding US
troops In French Morocco ; Kear
Adm. Ross Mclntyre, the presi
dent's physician; and Barry
mpkins, presidential advisor.
Riding in another car! were
Robert Murphy, American minis
ter for French Africa, and W.
Averfll Harrlman.
The soldiers reviewed had been
entirely unaware of the! presi
dent's presence in Africa, and con
fessed later that they had as
sumed when they rehearsed yes
terday for the affair that the party
would be "another bunch of brass
hats.
Standing rigidly at attention and
unable to look in the direction
from which ..the president was
coming, - each was surprised in
turn as Mr. Roosevelt's jeep drew
opposite him.
Eyes Ii tie rally popped as the
president and commander-in-chief
passed only six feet away
French Heads
Agree on Aim
O (Continued from Page 1) C
little political training as Gl
rand. They met a man who
does not know or declines to
accept the fact that no matter
what his following is in France,
he has less than 10 per cent of
the population of North Africa
behind him.
" They met a man who feels he
has an exclusive right to lead the
French and is bound to see any
one' else as a rival.
Both men want to be liberators
of France.
A few of these factors may have
accounted for the somewhat sour
expressions on their faces as they
faced the movie cameras with
Churchm and Roosevelt at Casa
blanca. Jeffers Charge
Probe Slated
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-A)-A
congressional Investigation of
army, and navy relations; to war
production was ordered Tuesday
as a result of the charges by Rub
ber . Administrator William M,
Jeff era that "loafers' they sent to
plants retarded output i
The house naval committee, on
omtion of Chairman Vinson (D
Ga), first approved the; inquiry
and then invited the military af
fairs - committee to make : It' a
joint one. Chairman May; (D-Ky)
of the latter group agreed.
. Vinson appointed to a subcom
mittee to make the investigation
Representatives Sasscer (D-Md),
Harris D-Va), Fogarty (D-RI),
Mott (R-Ore) .and Grant (R-Ind).
May said Representative Thoma
son (D-Tex), would -head the mili
tary subcomrUttee, and that he
would name .the others Wednes
day.' , "V "
Orfgon. Weone2Srj Morning,
Tripoli after a drive of
than 100
fat front of the men with a big
smile an his face. Few soldiers
were able to wipe off their own
smiles of pleasure, j
The presidential convoy formed
at 9:30 a xn skirted Casablanca
and drove directly to the review
area, some miles north.
- IThe convoy consisted of official
limousines, armored scout cars
with 50-calibre machine guns, and
weapons; carriers bearing official
signal corps photographers. It
was preceded and followed by
military police on motorcycles.
1 The convoy drove by the airport
Where scores of fighters took off
to form a vast umbrella overhead
throughout the i day. The presi
dent wearing a gray felt hat a
gray suit with a white pin strige,
and white pullover sweater, rode
in the : limousine of Lt Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, allied commander-in-chief
in north Africa.
j The president occasionally
laugher and joked with the gen
erals accompanying him, several
times he spoke to the men. Mostly
he appeared deadly serious.
i The reviewing party passed into
an open field swept by a brisk
wind. The president laughed when
his hat blew off. It was caught by
General Clark, !
j Mess Sat Joseph Baer, from
Sharon. Wis, bad a field klt
chen set up near 20 small tables
with folding chairs. The presi
dent opened and Inspected K".
concentrated emergency rations.
Then he was introduced to 5f
representative men and officers
who were decorated with silver
stars and purple hearts for their
part In the Initial occupation,
i Sgt Baer served a typical in
fantry field lunch of ham, green
beans, sweet potatoes, coffee,
bread liberally spread with butter;
mixed fruit and strawberry pre
serves.1;! ;
I The president with the others,
ate from a new mess kit
1 During the meal a band from
the engineers played the presi
dent's -favorite tunes,
i Among the photographers at the
review! from Tunisia was Corp.
Robert Hopkins, who saw his fa
ther for the first time in months.
V The convoy proceeded to Port
tyautey, the scene of the hard
est fighting In the North African
landings. It pased in front of the
Colorful Kasbah Mebdia, the 400-year-old
Portuguese : fori around
which hand-to-hand fighting ra
ged for three days. --v'4
The presldenfs limon sine,
stopped in front of the neat
cemetery alongside the . Kas
bah, adjoining the anelent
French cemetery, where he laid
s wreath at the foot of the
flagpole. The cemetery, bear
ing a1 sign "US military ceme
tery "to English, French and,
Arabic; Is bounded by a White
picket fence and the graves of
officers an 4 men bear white ,
Thej president paused on a
ridge overlooking' Auanuc
beaches and valley where a tank
battle had raged.' CoL Frederick
De Rohan, Washington, explained
the operation j which had - taken
place there. He used a huge chart
to demonstrate. .
Flyiin. Quite Post
WASHINGTON. Jan." 2oXaV
Edward it Flynn removed , one
point of opposition "by aome sen
ators to his confirmation as min
ister to Australia when he re
signed! Tuesday as democratic na
tional 1 committeeman from New
York. ; I' - 1
, 4 ' ssssn"n
RAF Hits Nariland
LONDON, Wednesday, -Jan. 27
(VRoyal air force bombers at
tacked t German objectives r Tues
day night after a two-night lull
in their night offensive, it was al
nounced Wednesday.
; I',. 4 -. , -
Surprised
January 7 IS13
but Not These.
mueai
Pupils Back;
Conduct at
Fire Lauded!
F (Continued from Page 1) W
child among the pupils and that
the exit from the building was
made in orderly fashion. ! ,
Henceforth leaves of absence to
teachers must be granted only be
cause of illness or to allow; oppor
tunity for study on a regularly
outlined education program, di
rectors voted. Obtaining teachers'
services Is already precarious, the
board was .told by Bennett, and
already the leaves granted run
close to the 8 per cent allowed
in salary scale arrangements
adopted by the Salem system, j .
Reporting on changes in the ad
ministration office, the superin
tendent told of the transfer of
Mrs. Mabel Sohrt to the. central
office, where she continues to keep
books for national defense! classes
and for the out of school youth
program in agriculture. Both
bookkeeping systems are tied tin
with the city schools' books, al
though Mrs. Sohrt is paid by the
federal, government . . 1 j
' MrSi Althea PresnalL for many
years a deputy In the office of the
Marion county clerk, has; accept
ed a position as machine book-
keeper in the office, working with
Connell Ward, the district's busi
ness manager , who also was for
merly a deputy clerk, j ;
' The rationing of oil fuel will
affect three Salon, school build
ings, Bennett , said, asking the
bidding and grounds committee to
recommend what procedure
should be followed in complying
with government requests; i j
Ration book No. 2 is to; be dis
tributed through the schools, the
superintendent reported, declaring
that this promises to be the heavi
est ration task yet undertaken,
since every applicant must declare
all supplies of rationed foods and
points provided must be j figured
accordingly. ' j
Civilian defense offices are pro
viding a teacher for a course in
air raid work to be offered high
school boys, Bennett said.! At Sa
lem high school, Hi-Y members
are to take the training, j - - j
Crash Kills !
f
General Wash
TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 26-tfP-Brig.
Gen. Carlyle H. Wash,; former
commanding officer of the Third
air corps at Tampa, and nine oth
ers, seven of them officers, were
killed Tuesday in the crash of an
army transport seven miles from
Flomaton, Ala., while on a flight
from Drew field here. . !
Capt Martin Doster, public' re
lations officer of Drew field, In
msMng the announcement ' listed
others kiled in the plane 'as: ',
Lt CoL J. H. Cunningham, Colo
rado Springs, Colo.; Lt: CoL J. A.
Cain, Colorado Springs; Maj. J. R.
Lee, Colorado Springs; Lt J. A
Simon, Colorado Springs; Maj. S.
B. Gimble, Jr, pilot, Third ! air
force, Tampa; ifK V
Flight Officer Glenn A- John
son. 21, Tampa and Oshkosh, Wis
co-pilot; Lt Edward A. Durica, 38,
Oakpark. HL- Master Sgt Pius
Wltherow, Tampa, engineer; Staff
Sgt J. C Melder, Tampa. I '
Gen.' Wash since lea yinerthe
Third air force command, had
been commanding general of the
Second air support command With
headquarters at Colorado" Springs.
Previously he was commanding
general of the Second interceptor
command,' headquarters at Seattle.
y ' ' " t ' ;.
GOP Naines Selvage t I
WASHINGTON. Ja n i. 28-J)
James P.:. Selvage, of Princeton,
NJ, a formerv newspaper j reporter
and publicity man, was appointed
Tuesday publicity, director of the
republican national committee. He
succeeds Clarence Budington el
land, of Arizona, who automatically-
went out of that Job when
Harrison'L Spangler was named
committee chairman. I --
-I
ONthe HOME FRONT
r X; used to work on a newspa
per.--
i. Thus, I quote a bartender (I
met ; him at the coffee shop) and
an unlimited number of persons
who! outside a newspaper office
but-here are just "chaps down on
their luckj," ;
' -: As far as that goes I could be
quoting a minister of my acquain
tance, a couple of sailors, a colonel
stationed at no great distance front
Salem, a number of social work
ersor the Inebriated individual
whoj calls . to ask young . women
whose names are signed to news
paper stories for blind dates..'
An innumerable number of per
sons in business or other profes
sions, homemakers and society
women once were school teachers,
but I do you hear them sounding
off about it?
i ... . ...
There must be something queer
about working on a newspaper
that makes folk boast about lt as
a sort of unusual portion of their
early lives. j
-vr- -' -
I do believe this, that everyone
who works on a paper, talks
yearningly of greener fields, how
much more -money, better, hours
(easier ; on - the clothes and the
meal budget too),! greater prestige
could be attained elsewhere. . But
somehow, I know more persons
who still work at digging out the
unromantic daily news, putting In
or taking- out commas, writing
heads, reading proof, than I do
those who speak of such tasks In
the past tense. - j
February 8-10
Set for Fuel
Ration Signup
E (Continued from Page 1) B
to j measure every room In his
home. . - y ,. .
The OPA named three men In
Oregon to assist in directing the
rationing program: Daniel Rohrer,
Charles B. Maxfield and Charles
Nell, special state fuel oil ration
ing representatives to work under
George L. Curry, OPA sta,te fuel
rationing representative. -
PORTLAND, Jan. 25-ff-Ore-gon
OPA officials estimated Tues
day 180,54 residents of .the state
will be sffectediby tbe fuel oil
rationing program ordered for the
Pacific -northwest ! ?
' Approximately 2 9,9 8 8 houses
are affected in the Portland area
and 19,141 in the remainder of
the state. . ;
Officials said others affected
would Include fanners using: oil
in ! smudge pots and tractors and
rural families using gasoline! Xor
lighting and cooking.
Chinaa Russia
Absence Hit j
NEW YORK, Jan. 2-():-Wen-dell
L. Willkie, 1940 republican
presidential candidate, expressed
disappointment Tuesday night
that Russia's and China's leaders
were absent from the North Af
rica n conference of President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill and that creation of "a
grand military strategy . board was
not announced. j
! Speaking during a coast-to-coast
broadcast over the Mutual
Broadcasting system soon . after
the historic meeting was dis
closed,; Willkie said: ; : y
f. Maybe the rumors of the grand
strategy board will become real
Perhaps the . French collaborators
were reduced in status and the
men who have risked their lives
for freedom have at last come into
their own. in North Africa. Any-
way we will hope that such is the
case.".-. ' . . v.
Tonight
and
arsday,
J
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Allies Inspired
By Conferences
Some Disappointed
Over Failure to"
Unite French
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that we were going to hear of
the unravelling of the North
African oolitical tangle. I had
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could have been announced as a
fact" -
Minority Leader McNary of
the, senate: 1 think it's en
couraging and about what one
woald expeet".
Chairman Mar (D-Ky) of the
house military affairs committee:
"The Dresident's trip demonstrates
his courage and his determination
to win this war and win it quickly.
Stralshtenihc out of the dangerous
political situation in north Africa
Is a major victory for the United
Nations."
LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. 27
(flThe Roosevelt-Churchill ren
dezvous in Morocco sharply boost
ed British hopes that the final
blow at the heart of Hitlerdom
wfll be struck in 1943.
The dramatic dispatches tell
ing of the Casablanca war conn
ell stirred a deep satisfaction In
both official and unofficial cir
cles, with all convinced that the '
results of the talks would be
making the ; blackest news for
the axis before the year's end.
LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. 27
(A-London morning newspapers
expressed divergent opinions on
the import of the Casablanca con
ferences, some cautiously hailing
them as a forerunner of a vast
offensive and an earlier allied vic
tory, while others expressed dis
appointment that the conferees
failed to appoint a. supreme war
council and that the French situ
ation in north Africa still was
obscure.
All of them used their biggest
headlines. They devoted the
greater part of their four-page
papers to telling the story.
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