PLANS FOR VICTORY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21009, 4 February 1943, Page 3

PLANS FOR VICTORY

MILITARY STRATEGY SIGNS'OF FRENCH UNITY (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 2. President Roosevelt re-emphasised that the conference with Mr. Winston Churchill was designed to formulate plans for complete victory. Complete agreement was reached on the aim of unconditional surrender oi the Axis. President Roosevelt stressed repeatedly that the Casablanca conference was essentially a military, naval and air conference. Everything was considered and thought of in that light. The conference was a conference to win the war. Its planning in this direction went as “far as one can plan in 1943 to win.” President Roosevelt devoted a large part of his conference to the political situation in North Africa which, in his opinion, is working out very well. He predicted greater co-operation between General de Gaulle and General Giraud and their .stalls as a result of the Casablanca conference. He quoted from an interview with General Giraud in which General Giraud praised General de Gaulle and professed great admiration for and agreement with the leader of the Fighting French.

Brazilian and in Atlantic,

The President discussed at length his meeting with the President of Brazil, Dr. Vargas, and said he conferred with the President of Brazil on the question of an increased effort by the Republic to fight the submarine problem in the South Allantic. They had agreed, said President Roosevelt, that any draft peace must eliminate any future threat from the African coast against the South American coast. President Roosevelt revealed that he loft Mr. Churchill at Manakish_ where the Prime Minister was sketching the. Atlas Mountains. President Roosevelt said that General Giraud told him he could build an army of about 250,000 if furnished with certain weapons. The President added that an effort was now under way to send the latest modern equipment to General Giraud. General de Gaulle President Roosevelt said, had now between 15,000 and 20,000 Frenchmen in Equatorial Africa and possibly some in Madagascar. A column of General de Gaulle’s forces fighting in Tunisia were in close touch with General Giraud’s column.