GREAT STEFS AHEAD

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

GREAT STEFS AHEAD

MR. CHURCHILL’S PROMISE Recd. 7 p.m. Quebec, Aug. 24. After the joint statement was handed to the Press, Mr. Mackenzie, King asked Mr. Churchill to speak. As at Casablanca no questions were permitted, Mr. Churchill said he was confident the results would justify the concentrated study that had been given to future plans. The British and American ar..i.es, navies, and air forces were not only fighting side by side, but actually intermingling. They were working in complete harmony and were ahead of schedule. The combined conclave studied planned movements whereby the war will be carried on and reached what he believed to be very good conclusions. They certainly were unanimous conclusions. After a poor start, the United Nations were now better equipped than the enemy people and could look forward to great steps to beat down tneir adversary. Mr. Churchill made it clear tha. Russia was not invited because Russia was not fighting Japan. He added that the U-boac campaign had rolled over from the debit to the credit side due to the great Canadian and American shipping production and also the neavy u-boat sinkings.

Russia was making a superb contribution to the war. This, along with the other factors previously mentioned, would make it possible rescue people who had been suffering under enemy oppression for so long.

The Quebec conference was a satisfactory milestone along the road. President Roosevelt said that he and Mr. Churchill had failed to create a phrase describing the historic conference. He compared the present situation with that when ne and Mr. Churchill met in June, 1942. What was planned at that conference became effective in November, 1942, when North Africa was invaded. The Casablanca conference decisions last January were carried into effect in Tunis and Sicily, it couid oe assumed that other things would develop following the present conference.