ALLIES’ FULL STRENGTH

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22149, 22 September 1943, Page 5

ALLIES’ FULL STRENGTH

HURLED AGAINST ENEMY IN ASIA AND EUROPE (United Press Assn.—F.lec. Tr-1. Copyright) (Received Sept. 22, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 21 "Great offensives, in which our full strength will be hurled against the enemy in Asia and Europe, are just about to begin,” declared General Marshal, addressing the American Legion Convention in Omaha. He added: "Now at last we are ready to carry the war to the enemy with a power and force which we hope will bring an early conclusion.” General Marshall said preparations had been made in North Africa and Sicily and were about to be made in Italy for the support of huge ground and air forces and for a long time similar preparations had been underway in Britain and in the Pacific. “It will discourage the Japanese,” he said, “To learn that our most difficult problem is to find sufficient bases fiom which to operate the vast forces to be poured into the Pacific for a re-arrangement of the Sons of Heaven’s affairs with his military clique, but these matters are not the result of a propaganda campaign, temporary enthusiasm or special interests. “We must proceed in the most business-like manner possible to make this war so terrible to the enemy and so overwhelming in character that never again can a small group of dictators find a sufficient following to destroy the peaceful security of the civilised world.”