GOOD CONCLUSIONS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 270, 25 August 1943, Page 4

GOOD CONCLUSIONS

THE CONFERENCE AT QUEBEC.

GREAT STEPS INDICATED. WORDS OF THE TWO LEADERS. (N.Z. Brass Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 2 p.m.) QUEBEC, August 24. After the joint statement had been handed to the press, Mr W. L. Mackenzie King asked Mr Churchill to speak. As at Casablanca no questions were permitted. Mr Churchill said he was confident that the results would justify the concentrated study that had been given to the plans. British and American armies, navies and air forces were not only fighting side by side but were also actually intermingling. They were working in complete harmony and were ahead of schedule. The combined conclaves studied planned movements whereby the war will be carried on and they had reached what he believed were very good conclusions. They were certainly unanimous conclusions. After a poor start the United Nations were now better equipped than the enemy. People could look forward to great steps to beat down the adversary.

Mr Churchill made it clear that Russia had not been invited because Russia was not fighting Japan. The Prime Minister added that the U-boat campaign had rolled over from the debit to the 'credit side owing to the great Canadian and American production of shipping, also the heavy sinkings of U-boats. Russia was making a superb contribution. This, along with the other factors previously mentioned, would make it possible to rescue the people who had been suffering under enemy oppression so long. The conference pt Quebec was a satisfactory milestone along the road. President Roosevelt said that lie and Air Churchill had failed to create a phrase describing the ’ historic conference. He compared the present situation with that when he and Mr Churchill met in June, 1942. What had been planned at that conference became effective in November, 1942, when North Africa was invaded. The decisions at the conference at Casablanca last January were carried into effect in Tunis, and Sicily. It could be assumed that other things would develop following this conference.