BRITAIN AND U.S. PREPARE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23413, 21 August 1941, Page 5

BRITAIN AND U.S. PREPARE

CONTINUATION OP WAR

SURVEY OF NEEDS TO BE MADE

(Received August 20, 11 p.m.)

(U.P.A.) WASHINGTON, August 20. Mr Roosevelt said to-day that the war would continue through 1943 if necessary. Britain and the United States would make surveys of their needs and production through that year. He said the conference at sea with Mr Churchill would result in the United States giving more punch in helping the democracies. In the Senate to-day, Senator A. W. Barkley, leader of the Democrats in the Senate, denied that the sending of an American expeditionary force to help Britain invade Europe had been discussed, intimated, or even hinted at during the meeting between Mr Roosevelt and Mr Churchill.

MR CHURCHILL’S RETURN

Enthusiastic Welcome Given

AMAZING SCENES MARK

ARRIVAL

LONDON, August 19. Amazing scenes marked the arrival of Mr Churchill in London this morning. When his train pulled into the station the official party, comprising generals, admirals, air marshals, and leading members, of the Cabinet, led by Mrs Churchill, ran down the platform to greet Mr Churchill. Every vantage point overlooking the platform was thronged with people. Mr Churchill’s first words were: "It is good to be back in London again.” The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr A. V. Alexander) was greeted by Mr Churchill with the remark: “You have done it very well,” in a tribute to the way in which the Navy had carried him safely on his historic journey. Mr Alexander replied: “The Royal Navy was proud to carry you, but your safe return has taken a load off my mind.”

Terrific cheers swelled round them as the official party crossed the station approach to the Prime Minister’s car. Mr Chyrchill time and time again raised his cap in acknowledgment. The crowd at the station was so great that traffic had to* be held up and a passage cleared for Mr Churchill’s car. The Prime Minister of New Zealand (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) was among the party which met Mr Churchill. He received a hearty handshake as he congratulated Mr Churchill on his achievement.

Mr Churchill will begin his broadcast to the Empire on Sunday at 9 p.m. B.S.T. (8 a.m. New Zealand time on Monday).

Since his return to London Mr Churchill has been fulfilling a heavy programme. He was cheered by enthusiastic crowds on ,his way from a meeting of the War Cabinet at No. 10 Downing Street to Buckingham Palace, where he had lunch with His Majesty, and again in the afternoon when he and Mrs Churchill went to the Ministry of Information to see the film of the meeting in the Atlantic. The King also paid a surprise visit to the Ministry to see the film, and took a keen interest in it, especially in a shot of Mr Churchill with the battleship’s black cat mascot.

Mr Churchill won all hearts in Reykjavik and his visit was the subject of many leading articles in the Reykjavik newspapers, one of which declared that it was fitting that the smallest democratic nation in the world should be the first visited by the British Prime Minister after his historic conference with Mr Roosevelt.

“REACTION MOSTLY FAVOURABLE”

CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT DECLARATION

WASHINGTON, August 19. The United States Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) said the Chinese Ambassador in Washington (Dr. Hu Shih) had intimated that the Government of China had endorsed the .eight-point declaration made by Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt.

Mr Hull added that world reaction was mostly favourable to the declaration. ,

MR MACKENZIE KING 9 IN BRITAIN

CONSULTATIONS WITH f GOVERNMENT

LONDON, August 20. The Prime Minister of Canada '(Mr W. L. Mackenzie King) arrived in Britain to-day for consultations with the British Government. He will attend meetings of the War Cabinet. A message from Ottawa says it is considered significant that Mr Mackenzie King’s visit follows the conference between Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt.

Mr Mackenzie King is the third Dominion Prime Minister to visit Britain within the last few months. The Prime Minister of New Zealand (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser), who arrived in June,“is still there, and the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr R. G. Menzies) was recently in Britain for 10 weeks.

BOMBED HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

MR FRASER INSPECTS

DAMAGE

LONDON, August 19. The Prime Minister of New Zealand (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) to-day visited the bombed Houses of Parliament , “It was tragic to see the home of demorcracy blasted open to the sky and to see the wreckage of such historic buildings, which I frequently visited in happier times,” declared Mr Fraser. “Yet, in spite of the wreckage of these buildings, Parliament still carries on, like the brave people of Britain, whose homes have also been blasted out of and, just as newer and better homes and newer and better cities will arise, so newer and better Parliament buildings will be rebuilt, where the free expression of free peoples will be heard in the years ahead. The Hun can wreak material damage, but he cannot crush the spirit of democracy.”