THREE MONTHS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 201, 26 August 1943, Page 5

THREE MONTHS

POSSIBLY DECISIVE GERMAN BREAKDOWN NOT UNLIKELY (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Recd. 10.45 p.m. New York, Aug. 25. Very high quarters in Washington talk of the next three months as possibly decisive in Europe. They do not rule out a breakdown in German resistance within five months, assuming intensification of Allied bombing, with or without an invasion. This belief, says the New York Times’ Washington correspondent, results from the Quebec Conference. Mr. Churchill’s call for confidence, linked with the devastating bombing of Berlin, is interpreted as justifying more optimism regarding a German collapse than was sanctioned, in Mr. Byrne's cautious speech last week. Informed circles consider that Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt seek “a limited revolution” in Axis countries, meaning the overthrow of the Fascist and Nazi regimes without the overthrow of authority capable of maintaining order. Washington observers also conclude from the conference that British, American and Russian relations still do not ensure the solidarity of the three Powers after the war. They say the attitude toward Germany is the major unsettled issue between Britain. America and Russia.

The correspondent of the London Daily Mail who covered the Quebec Conference, says that President Roosevelt in recent months five times invited M. Stalin to meet him, suggesting various Irak, Cairo, Ireland, Alaska or the United States. A conference between Britain, America and Russia, both to deal with the existing difficulties and as an aftermath of Quebec is becoming increasingly probable, according to wellinformed quarters in London. It is not likely to be on a Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill level, but M. Maisky is coming back to London soon before finally returning to Moscow, and he might be Russia’s envoy. The United Press Quebec correspondent says a meeting between Britain, America and Russia may *oe held before Mr. Churchill returns Io Eng* land. It is known that Mr. Churchill is going to Washington, where the talks with Mr. Roosevelt will be resumed.