ALLIED CHIEFS BUSY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21272, 8 December 1943, Page 3

ALLIED CHIEFS BUSY

LONG TALKS INTO NIGHT EXECUTION”OF PLANS LONDON, Dec. 5. Details of the military decisions, perhaps related to the sessions at Teheran, posed a planning problem which has kept the British and American Chiefs of Staff busy eyer since, says the National Broadcasting Company’s correspondent in Cairo. General George Marshall, Admiral J. King and Lieutenant-General H. H. Arnold as early as Friday morning, conferred with General Sir Alan Brooke, Admiral Andrew Cunningham and Air Chief Marshal Sir Chas. Portal. These sessions were continued at a location which, for the moment, is secret. The first joint talk took two and a-half hours. The combined military chiefs held a really strenuous session last night and worked, without interruption, until 3 a.m. II is not surprising that the generals and admirals are burning the midnight oil considering the scope of the Far Eastern military decisions taken in Cairo and the obvious problems confronting Britain and America in Europe. The Berlin radio says it is understood that one of the decisions of the “big three” conference was-, to impose reparations of £125,000,000,000 on Germany. Since it is realised that this sum can never be paid, the allies intend to compensate themselves by confiscating German industry and post-war production.