PRESIDENT'S WARNING
A LONG WAR
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, February 2. President Roosevelt received Congressional leaders and gave them a resume of the Casablanca conferences. The leader of the Senate majority, Senator A. W. Barkley, said: "Some details have already appeared in the Press, and others cannot be revealed.'^ - Mr. Roosevelt earlier conferred with Mr. Hull, Mr. Welles, and Admiral Stark, commander of the naval forces in European waters. The Associated Press of America reports that Mr. Roosevelt told the Congressional leaders that approximately 7,500,000 men was . the maximum American army needed to win the war. The Casablanca conference did not reach a decision on an over-all Allied command because Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek were not present. The war of attrition in the Pacific, he said, was having a telling, although slow, effect on Japan. Mr. Roosevelt warned that the war might continue for a long time.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1943, Page 5
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