SMOOTHER ACTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 5

SMOOTHER ACTION

ANY EVENTUALITY BRITAIN AND AMERICA MR. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—Uniteil Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 18, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 17. A message from Rockland, Maine, yesterday quoted President Roosevelt as stating at a press conference that the complete understanding achieved during his conference with Mr. Winston Churchill had unified Britain and Lhe United States in such a way as to permit smoother action by the two nations in any eventuality. On all aspects of the war situation he and Mr.' Churchill was in complete agreement. Mr. Roosevelt indicated that the first positive development on his return to Washington might be a lequest for a new appropriation running into many billions of dollars supplementing the original seven billions of the lend-and-lease fund. The President replied in the negative when asked whether the United Siates were any closer to entering the war. He said he did not doubt that Russian resistance would continue through the winter. Russia needed immediately available material for next summer’s campaign. Russia also needed other things before the spring campaign ended. She would pay for war equipment. Talks Aboard Warships Mr. Roosevelt declined ;o revcai where his meeting with Mr. Churchill took place. Ail the conferences, he said, were held aboard the United States cruiser Augusta, with the exception of one aboard the battleship Prince of Wales. The idea of flic meeting had been jointly mooted in February, but the events in Greece and Crete had delayed it for three months. Mr. Roosevelt said that about 300 American sailors, from the Augusta mingled with British tars aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales for services under the huge camouflaged guns, .chile the officer personnel fraternised similarly. He said the services wert conducted jointly by British ana American chaplains at an altar drapeo with both the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. The Boston Post says that the meeting between Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt took place off the Maine coast. This was revealed by a fisherman who came upon a tremendous armada of battleships and other naval vessels clustered in this area.