LANDING IN FRANCE

Evening Star, Issue 24990, 8 October 1943, Page 3

LANDING IN FRANCE

U.S. SENATOR'S OPPOSITION MASS MURDER OF INVADERS WASHINGTON, October 7. Any attempt to invade the Channel coast wduld involve the mass murder of the invading troops said the.chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Senator A. B. Chandler, a member of the party of Congressmen, who recently completed a tour of the world battle zones. He said the Germans have established defence in depth, on the western front. "It is useless losing hundreds of thousands of men by invasion," he said, '"if we can win otherwise."

Senator Chandler urged that General MacArthur should be given supremo command in the Pacific and Asia, asserting that Mr. Churchill and the British Government never were enthusiastic about a Pacific offensive. " If General Mac Arthur were given; sufficient planes, men, and equipment." Senator Chandler said, " he, could launch an offensive, cutting off the Japanese hold on the Dutch Indies and by-passing that_area in a drive to the Philippines. The United States must adopt a policy of imperialism based on the dictates of defence, and retain possession after the war of some of the occupied territories, including Ice-, land and New Caledonia."