SECRET PACT?

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 1 (Supplement)

SECRET PACT?

WIPE OUT NAZIDOM

Roosevelt And Churchill'* Private Meetings r.r-.v ani Wirrt<*«. Reo. .".HO p.m. LONDON. Aug. 15. It is reported in authoritative circles in Washington, according is reports received in London, that President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill, apart from conferring with their advisers. personally drafted a broad British and American strategical programme designed to wipe out Nazi tyranny. These sources say the two statesmen met frequently by themselves during the high seas conference, for the purpose of co-ordinating the work of sectional meetings among I'nited States and British officials. On account of this procedure the entire scope of the commitments and strategy underlying the declaration of common principles is known only to the two principals, and the full ramifications may not become known to all who participated at ih« meeting for some time to come. It is stated that many British and I American warships were present at ; the secret rendezvous and that the I meetings were held both on the i battleship Prince of Wales and on j the American cruiser Augusta. Conj stant aerial and surface patrols • were maintained. CaH to C.S. Army j The United States Army must be I prepared to fight on the icebound j coasts of the North Atlantic and the North Pacific as well as in the tropic heat of the Panama, said the Minister of War. Mr. Stimson. in a broadcast to soldiers, according to a Washington message. He declared that at present the greatest dancer was in Central and South America. If by combining an air attack with a fifth column revolution an Axis Power succeeded in gaining a. hold on South America, the United States would have a real task. Arnerican soldiers were already j standing guard from Iceland on the I east to British Guiana on the west ' and from Alaska to Panama. The j Germans were now going into battle I with their song "To-day Europe's ours, to-morrow the whole world."' i "We therefore ask army service- | men to give us the patriotic devotion, faith and spirit which made the American armies unconquerable/' I said Mr. Stimson.