Show The War This Week Bad National Moves Counteract Heartening War Gains By EVERETT L. COOLEY The news from the world-wide battle-fronts is most encouraging to the people of the Allied while it spells certain defeat for the this good news is somewhat by the news from f the political and home- are some- what aroused to think that should choose a time like this to pay off a political debt by ap- pointing a career poli- J to the M of one of our bI important An- 9 other bit that is hard to take is the fact that Everett Cooley the Chinese military mission was so or better was so shamefully neglected and ignored that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has ordered its return from this Even in time of peace prior to December it would have been shameful to do as we have recently Now during this critical can we possibly treat our allies so Certainly if we expect to win the war with their Australia sent to Washington probably the greatest man in her And in return we offer them more or less a political cast-off in Edward J. This action certainly doesn't make for the necessary unity in the Allied China sent to us one of her foremost military General Hsiung He arrived in But during his stay the only contact he has had with our military staff was when Admiral William Leany called to pay his In we just got the stage cleared action that would unite the Free French under Giraud when someone threw a wrench into the machinery by appointing Marcel B. to the governorship of Algeria There are some bright spots in our political relation as well as the One of these is the recent signing of a treaty with China denouncing our right of extraterritoriality in that This right we have held since the Gushing treaty of Now after nearly years of limiting Chinese we have seen fit to treat China more nearly as our The big war-news centers around the meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill with their military staffs in There for 10 days the two leaders have studied plans for the 1943 Apparently the military strategy has been well worked But from all the political situation of North Africa is still True to the French Giraud and De got together but no decision seems to have been reached as to the appointment of certain questionable characters to high positions in North The points agreed upon by the two leaders unconditional of the Axis the aid to Russia must be maintained so that Russia's offensive against the Nazis will not bog and that must receive assistance to continue the war she has been engaged in for the last six This meeting is the fourth between Roosevelt and Churchill and is by far the most Several were broken by the President when he flew to But Roosevelt seems to delight in being Joseph Stalin was invited to the conference but he had to remain to personally direct the offensive of the Red which is thoroughly thrashing the Nazis in every Their recent advances have trapped and taken at least German |