Senators Expect Defeat Of Japan By 1945

Northern Advocate, 1 October 1943, Page 3

Senators Expect Defeat Of Japan By 1945

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. Senators Mead, Brewster and Russell who have returned from an inspection trip of world battlefronts, told the Press that they believed the Pacific War would not end before 1945 but. because of the loss of Russian oil, also control of the Mediterranean and the submarine battle, Germany's collapse might come at i any time. On the Pacific front the senators found the closest co-operation of army and navy, but not enough supplies and men were going there. Nevertheless, the Japanese knew that the Allies were on the offensive. Referring to the other side of the picture, the senators believe that the American people have not been informed about the seamy side, meaning that heavy losses have not been fully mentioned.

Senator Mead said that the Truman Investigating Committee should direct attention to the developnig of post-war aviation policy under which American commercial planes would have access' to airfields built with United States funds in foreign countries.

Senator Brewster said that the committee should urge that additional oil for the United Nation? be taken from the Persian Gulf area so that American supplies would not be exhausted after the war.