FOUR-POWER WAR COUNCIL

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23848, 18 January 1943, Page 4

FOUR-POWER WAR COUNCIL

CONSTITUTION BELIEVED LIKELY

(Rec. 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16. "There are growing indications that Britain and America are moving towards closer co-operation with China and Russia, who have complained that their views were sometimes not sought on strategy and supply questions,” says the Washington correspondent of the “New York Times.” "It is believed that an over-all strategy council of ‘the Big Four’ will be established, thereby largely meeting the Chinese and Russian demands for equality of opportunity to present their views on future war developments. Well-informed officials m Washington predict that the council will aid immeasurably in the prosecution of the war. "Because Russia is not at war with Japan the entire council will probably sit only on major world-wide war problems. while Russia will withdraw whenever the Asiatic and Pacific conflict is discussed. For the same reasons. the council probably will not be formally constituted by a fourpower pact, but rather it will be the result of a working agreement among Mr Churchill. Mr Roosevelt, Stalin, and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.”