Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne roosevelt churchill meeting at sea brings joint declaration of war aims seeking A better future for world vichy nazi collaboration strengthened EDITORS EDITOR 8 NOTE when opinions opinion are ex expressed pree in these column epe they h e T r adalist and not necessarily of this ihli dewsz newspaper are those these of the news new released by western newspaper union 5 I 1 AL W e 4 A 1 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRIME 31 MINISTER INISTER CHURCHILL from their at sea came an eight point joint declaration of general itne ar aims and a plan for a better belter future for the world see below HISTORIC MEETING A declaration HISTORIC MEETING A declaration after a secret meeting at sea president roosevelt and prime minister churchill of great britain issued and signed a joint declaration of general war aims this declaration in its introduction explained that two men being met together deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective spec tive countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world the declaration then went on to outline the sort of world that would be sought following the end of the war in its eight point text the message expressed in a general way the foreign policy of the present U S administration and from the british point of view it was most concrete statement of war aims yet disclosed by that government in the opening point of the declaration la it was declared that neither the U S nor britain sought aggrandizement territorial or other in the next and following points the ideals expressed included the right of all peoples to choose own form of government a system of world trade working to the benefit of all nations a desire for fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field after the final destruction of nazi tyranny hope was expressed for a peace in which all nations could exist in safety and traverse the high seas without hindrance and finally a plea for the abandonment of the use of force between nations of the world worl d this historic document and meeting when they were announced ended two weeks of rumors about the possibility of the men meeting no sooner sooner had the president left washington on what was announced to be a short vacation cruise before the speculation and guessing began to sweet sweep through this country and england churchill was said kaid to be absent from london on pertinent war matters for five days no direct word as to the presidents whereabouts was available to the U S public then came word that an announcement was to be made it was reported that at the meetings there were several conferences high ranking army and naval officials of both countries were present from the white house came a statement that they had examined the whole problem of the supply of munitions of war DRAMA in washington lashington ff it was high drama that passage of the bill which makes the service ice of tees guardsmen guardsman guards men and regulars 18 months more than they signed up for the closeness of the vote to was part of it but the suddenness with which it came the bitterness of the press and forensic fight on the measure gave the battle its punch and severity the climax came when the calm voice of speaker sam rayburn announced the totals a victory for the administration by one vote this was met by a tumult in galleries and on floor of almost indescribable excite excitement rne lit it had been one of those things t that hat no one could have predicted and in which both sides felt sure of victory until the totals had been announced As the count grew late low lov and apprehensive whistles were heard from the members of congress as the vote balanced and then unbalanced each other the vote found the widest split of delegations in many a year there were democrats for the measure and 21 republicans 65 democrats and republicans against 14 paired and 14 riot not voting this vote did something that legislation seldom does in div giving ing each representative a keen realization of the value of his single vote collaboration vichy nazi naz zi pact coming at a moment when the russo german war was in its most critical stage and at a time when the japanese situation was at a sort of peak crisis the vichy nazi rapprochement ement ending in an upset of the governments policy of limited collaboration ion and putting the highly anti british darlan practically at the helm of french aff affairs airs was a sensation indeed it was one of those sensations of the type that we knew all alon along was going to happen but it was still a major shock when it happened one was forced to look at the matter both from the british american viewpoint however and from the viewpoint largely a matter of ones imagination of marshal petain himself preparatory articles had been written by escaped frenchmen quoting the record of detains Pet ains career to show that he had been both obstructionist and defeatist in the last war and not at all the hero that early histories had painted his collapse therefore was not unexpected in wiser quarters and yet a double analysis of his reasons was possible one perhaps more charitable to the old man himself the other perhaps a more realistic summation of the whole affair petain one might say viewing the impossible situation of france was making a complete surrender to germanys germanas Germ anys demands hoping for and betting on an eventual german victory and at the same time expecting that when the debacle and reorganization of europe might come france would get some crumbs from the conquerors table history will tell that was the realistic view of the situation and the one most generally accepted in britain more afore charitable was the thought that petain working for france in a country already vanquished and with laval and darlan both friendly to the nazis at his side had no other course than to surrender and those so viewing his act expressed the hope that petain was secretly wishing for a complete resistance to german occupation of french colonies and bases by the forces whichever might turn out to be the factual reason the eventuality was the same for few doubted but that the french fleet barring british preventive measures perhaps aided by the united states would be placed at hillers Hit lers disposal for some move in the western mediterranean perhaps it was said full collaboration was a prerequisite to an all out invasion attempt on the part of germany and if successful a complete german victory that in sum was pertains Pet Peta ains inos dream say the british when he addressed his people over the radio and said French frenchmen frenchee me n I 1 ha have ve grave things to tell youl you RUSSIA second phase the nazis big second push on the eastern front was producing results in territory gained but it still was debatable as to whether russian resistance was being shattered or whether the pattern of chinese resistance to japan was being repeated in another sector of the war russia admitted gains of considerable importance on the northern and southern fronts with germany making the border claims one asserting that a territory of approximately square miles had been nipped off in the black sea region they asserted their panzer divisions had driven down to the black sea coast past odessa trapping within this territory some large numbers of russian armed forces which they asserted would be annihilated in due course of time russian fliers still continued to raid berlin ORIENT japan committed the report that the japanese had landed men in indochina indo china and that most of these woud be concentrated cent rated on the thai frontier was taken in british circles to mean that the japs were committed to invasion and that when it started britain would find herself fighting on a new front what sounded very much like an ultimatum to nippon was described in dispatches from melbourne which stated with that britain and the united states had informed the japanese that they must inform the two countries whether she agrees to forego her policy of expansion southward and that a reply was insisted upon within a stipulated time dussias Rus sias answer to japanese objections to the use of the siberian port of vladivostok for lend lease ships from america was that russia intends to convoy such shipments with naval vessels producing another eastern danger point the russians also demanded that japan sign a aggression non pact without reservations the report of japanese occupation with troops came fro from manila a source which also stated that the british are forming in considerable sid erable force along the malayan and burmah borders of thailand ready to move in if they feel japanese invasion is a certainty SLASH in army fund of considerable significance ce in the washington scene was the fact that the senate appropriations committee made emergency history by slashing more than a billion and a quarter dollars from the army appropriation bill the first defense appropriation amount that has not passed with a rubber stamp regularity ul the committee headed by senator glass of virginia made mad e the cut by unanimous vote the cut amounted to per cent of the amount asked a substantial slice indeed the house already had passed the bill on july 28 and had sent it to the senate with the inclusion lusion of an item of for tanks and for antitank anti tank and antiaircraft anti aircraft guns undersecretary of war robert patterson had personally urged the inclusion of this item it was he said essential to the army if the united states was to move into armed conflict the senate committee having slashed by disapproving this item then turned around a and nd added to the bill thus making the net cut the main facts about the requested e d appropriation were kept from the public as military secrets but it was known that the amount asked w was as for equipment for over and above an army of men in other words this number of men could be equipped with tanks antitank anti tank and antiaircraft anti aircraft guns through appropriations already OK d but the committee turned thumbs down on the additional equipment to go beyond the man f figure egure the figures called for medium tanks 1500 light tanks and that the biggest item w was as tor for antiaircraft anti aircraft guns and that 1000 of these were to have been of 47 inch caliber CHANNEL platte paie attacks once more the english channel was the central scene of air warfare with the british attacking german points in ever increasing regularity and ferocity while the nazis stung into action by the long series of raids on berlin came back across the channel with a renewal of severe air attacks previously for many days even b before the start of the russo ger man war the nazi attacks had been by single planes or small groups |