U.S.A. AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 December 1944, Page 4

U.S.A. AFFAIRS

PRESIDENT AND COLUMNISTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Mr. Roosevelt said at his Press conference to-day that the war situation was such that every American should keep to his or her war job and maintain a steady flow of production. There had been no further developments in the proposed meeting between himself, Mr. Churchill, and Mr. Stalin, he said. A reporter asked whether it was contemplated that there would be an Allied joint chiefs of staff organisation to handle political and economic matters, as had been suggested. Mr. Roosevelt replied that he thought columnists had suggested it. He added that he thought columnists an unnecessary excrescence on civilisation. A woman reporter interjected: “But you’ve one in the family.” Mr. Roosevelt joined in the laughter, and agreed that that er different, because it isapQJJGK was perfectly true; but he said: “Eleanor’s column, ‘My Day,’ is rather different, because it is mostly a diary.” Yesterday the President and Mrs Roosevelt entertained the British Minister of State (Mr. Richard Law) at luncheon.