UNTIL VICTORY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 38, 15 February 1943, Page 3

UNTIL VICTORY

ROOSEVELT'S PLEDGE

Full Punishment Of Guilty Barbaric Leaders

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. "Many roads lead right to Tokyo. We shall not neglect one of them. Our policy toward the Japanese, as toward the Nazis, is to end the-war as quickly as possible, and our uncompromising terms are unconditional surrender,' said President Roosevelt, in his Lincoln Day address. . . ..„., Armies were massing m Norm Africa for one of the major battles to drive the enemies into the sea, Mr. Roosevelt said. "The Americans in Tunisia are facing for the first time actual combat with formidable opponents," he added. "The. battle will cost us heavy casualties. We must face that fact now with the same calm courage as the men on the battlefield. The pressure on Germany and Italy will be constant and unrelenting. We must hit the enemy in the west, like the Russians in the east, from so many directions that he will not know which is his bow and which his stern. If Japan falls first the total efforts and resources of all the United Nations will be concentrated on crushing Germany. Mr. Roosevelt said the Axis propagandists were trying to divide the United Nations. "The Nazis must be frantic," he added, "if they believe they can devise propaganda which turns the British, Americans and Chinese against the Russians, or Russia against the rest of us Chinese newspapers are reported to have expressed disappointment at Mr Churchill's statement of the Allies' intention to leave large-scale aiion against Japan until Germany iS '^The 6 next United Nations conference to be held in nine months time fn Asia" the China Times says, "probably will include more persons than President Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill and British and American experts."