Churchill Again Sees Roosevelt

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 303, 23 December 1941, Page 5

Churchill Again Sees Roosevelt

WASHINGTON VISIT Allied Leaders Discuss Questions Of War Policy (United Press Association.—Copyright.—Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 22. 1 1-,r a , S * nnounced in London to-night that Mr. Winston Churchill had arrived in the United States to discuss with President Roosevelt all questions relative to the war effort. Mr. Churchill was accompanied by Lord Beaverbrook and technical B * a ' . , 'rrime Minister has already been in conference with the President. Mr. Churchill was seen off from Britain by Mr J D Biggers, President Roosevelt's Minister of State in Britain, and Mr. J. (_». Winant, American Ambassador to Britain. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal Chief of the Air Force, and General Sir John Dill, formerly Chief of the General Staff, are in Mr. Churchill's party. statement from Washington, quoted by British fhciai Wireless, says President Roosevelt continued preliminary r e . nces for a J oint planning of unity of action among the Allied forces opposing the Axis Powers. He had conferences with M. Litvinoff, Soviet Ambassador, the Chinese Ambassador and the Netherlands Minister following Sunday's conference with the British Ambassador. Informed quarters in Washington suggest that General Douglas Mac Arthur will be made Chief of the Allied High ommand m the Far East. It is believed that Congress promoted him to the rank of full general to facilitate his possible assumption of command.

General Douglas Mac Arthur had risen to the rank of colonel when the United States entered the Great War. He served with the American forces in Europe in Champagne, on the Marne and the Aisne, and was wounded near Neuville. He became brigadier-general and was wounded again in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. His unit, after the Armistice, was part of the Army of Occupation, but in- April, 1919, he returned to the United States. In 1924 he led the Philippine Division in Manila, where he did some guerilla fighting. This year he was appointed Com-mander-in-Chief in the Philippines, and later Commander-in-Chief of the United States Forces in the Far East. He is considered one of the most able Allied leaders and was mentioned in a recent report from London as likely to be put in charge of the Allied forces along with the two other great strategists Marshal Boris Shaposhnikoff, Chief of the Russian General Staff, and the British leader. General Sir Archibald Wavell.