BIG THREE

Grey River Argus, 2 December 1943, Page 5

BIG THREE

TO CONFER IN PERSIA CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT En Route from Cairo [Aust. & N.Z. Press Assn.] (Rec. 11.5) NEW YORK, Dec. 1. A Reuter’s Agency} dispatch from Lisbon states: President Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek have completed a long conference in Cairo. They are now en route for Iran ((Persia) to meet M. Stalin. The New York "Herald-Tribune’s” Washington correspondent says: The Cairo talks undoubtedly were limited to discussion on the campaign against Japan, since Britain, America and China are warring against Japan, while Russia' is neutral towards Japan. FIRST NEWS. ANNOUNCED THROUGH BRITISH SOURCE. (Rec. 11.55.) NEW YORK, Dec. 1. The U.S. Office of War Information broadcast to France, bv short-wave, the full text of the Reuter’s dispatch from Lisbon as follows: ‘‘President Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill, and Marshal Chiang Kai Shek held a long conference in Cairo. A joint communique will be issued in the course of this week. During the conference, all communications were cut between Cairo and the rest of the world. One meeting was held in a tent, under the shadow of the Pyramids. Mr Roosevelt and Marshal Chiang h Shek (who was accompanied by Madam Chiano- Kai Shek) made the trio by plane. Mr. Churchill went by ship. “The three leader s are now heading for an unknown destination to meet M. Stalin.” ; Americans Indignant AT BRITISH NEWS SCOOP. (Rec. 11.50.) NEW YORK; Dec. 1. The ‘‘New York Herald Tribune’s’ Washington correspondent says:— ‘‘American news agencies and Government information agencies had no information about the Cairo meeting. All news thereon has emanated from British sources It was noted that Reuter’s Agencv undistributed the dispatch in Britain, but sent it via London to New York by normal radio transmission.” Mr. Elmer Davis, the head of the United States Office of War Information, has voiced indignation over the dispatch. “If there were an official conference, any announcement would, according to precedent, be issued simultaneously in all of the interested capitals,” he said. “Whether or not Reuter’s Agency’s announcement r.elateq to any such official conference, it is equally reprehensible. If official, it is a violation of the agreed arrangement for simultaneous international release in such cases, and if unofficial it is an injurious piece of fiction.”