STRATEGIC PLANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 9

STRATEGIC PLANS

TO EXTINGUISH NAZIS

DRAFTED AT CONFERENCE

LONDON, August 15. It is stated today that Mr. Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, has been received by his chief, Mr. Cordell Hull, on his return from the conference at sea. • In Washington, authoritative circles are saying that President Roosevelt and Mr, Churchill personally drafted a broad strategic programme designed to wipe out Nazi tyranny. According to the same circles, the two leaders rriet frequently by themselves during the high se.as conference to co-ordinate the work of the sectional meetings of the high officials accompanying them. It is suggested that the considerations of strategy underlying the eight-point declaration are known only to the two- leaders and that their full ramifications may not be revealed for some time. SCHEME AGAINST JAPAN? In Tokio, according to , the Domei news agency, political circles express the opinion that a joint plan has been drawn up by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill for military action against Japan. Japanese Press reaction is violently hostile and the "Nichinichi Shimbun" says it is safe to consider the declaration as a virtual declaration of war on the Axis. The same paper expresses the view that creation of a joint warfront against Japan figured largely in the discussions. In Berlin, political circles are saying, in effect, "If you want to disarm us, come over here and take our weapons." A London commentator remarked, "We mean to." Mr. Cordell Hull has announced the possibility of a meeting between American, British, and Russian experts to consider Russia's war needs. The discussions between President Roosevelt i and Mr. Churchill about the supply of war materials to Russia may be followed by conferences between experts from all three countries, United States, Russia, and Great Britain. Mr. Cordell Hull said today that there might soon be an announcement about such a conference, and this evening's New York newspapers feature a report that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr, ! Churchill intend to propose to M. Stalin that British and American offi- | cials should go to Moscow.