AMERICAN OPTIMISM

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15077, 24 June 1942, Page 3

AMERICAN OPTIMISM

PLANS FOR SECOND FRONT HITLER NOW STAKING ALL. ON RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. United Press Assn —By Electric! Telegraph—Co*, bright. WASHINGTON, June 23 The Soviet Ambassador (M. Litvinoff) declared that Hitler was now flinging 'all his forces against the Russian front in a final throw of the dice whereon he was staking all. M. Litvinoff again asked for th© establishment of a second front, adding: “There is now every ground to hope for it in the near future.”

The A.F.L. president (Mr William Green) endorsed M. Litvinoff’s plea asserting that it was imperative for the United Nations to open a second European front at the earliest practicable moment

Mr Harry Hopkins (who represented President Roosevelt in Russia Isuw year), speaking at a Russian rally, declared that he had spoken to x «■ sident Roosevelt a few hours previously while the President and Mr Churchill were discussing strategy. President Roosevelt sent th© following message to the rally: “Tell them we mean to giv© Russia aid on the battlefield. Our armed fol'ces will attack at the right time and place and the Russian front won’t fail.” Mr Hopkins said that President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill were plotting the offensive strategy for the opening of a second front or even third and fourth fronts. He added: “The Russian front is th© most important strategic front in. the world. The defeat of the Russian Army would he a major disaster which would prolong the war for mouths. Make no mistake, Russia and the Red Army are in danger just as they have been for the last year. Our flow of supplies is reaching the Russian front, but more than that will be done.

“We will not be discouraged about that critical front where the .Japanese armies ar e threatening China from-all sides, but step by stejj, no matter how long it takes, the United Nations will strike their war to the very gates of Japan and the Allies will destroy the last vestiges ot the miltary dictatorship i n Japan. Every Japanes© soldier will be swept out of China. Manchuria and Korea “Th© main Japanese fleet, though damaged at Coral Sea and Midway, is still intact but the American fleet will finally track the Japanese navy into its lair and send it to the bottom. Soon, our airmen will join the British in England. Germany will then know that American might can be brought to bear fiercely on Germany itself. The German cities one by one will be destroyed “Italy led by that fat and almost retired exhibitionist. Mussolini. will collapse like an inflated mushroom under the first. stream of violent attack ” Mr Hopkins added that the United States Army of three million men is not being trained to “play tiddley winks.”

Air Hopkins declared that the Coral Sea and Midway battles were a prelude to the inevitable disaster awaiting Tojo’s cruel military dictatorship. “China will live again a free country guiding her own destiny,” sa,«d Mr Hopkins. who cautioned that there would be defeats and dark da vs before victory Referring to China, he said that brave country was never in such grave danger. “Marshal Ohiang Kaishek can be sure of oiir aid.”