| Show WEEKLY NEWS iNA ANALYSIS LYSIS by edward C wayne roo roosevelt sevelt churchill meeting at sea brings joint declaration of war aims seeking A better future for world vichy nazi collaboration strengthened EDITORS when opinions are expressed in these columns and not of this are those 0 I 1 the news analyst released by western newspaper union 7 va 7 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL from their historic meeting at sea came an eight point joint declaration of general avar aims and a plan for a better future for the it orld see below HISTORIC 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 their 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 this historic document and meeting when they were announced ended two weeks of rumors about the possibility of the men meeting no sooner had the president left washington on what was announced to be a short vacation cruise before the speculation and guessing began to sweep through this country and england churchill was said to be absent from london on pertinent 11 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 fl ashington it was high drama that passage of the bill which makes the service 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 excitement it had been one of those things that no one could have predicted and in which both sides felt sure of victory until the totals had been announced collaboration r vichy nazi 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 and putting the highly anti british darlan practically at the helm of fr french ench affairs was a sensation indeed it was one of those sensations of the type that we knew all 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 one ones s 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 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 f ull 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 detains Pet ains dream say the british when he addressed his people over the radio and said frenchmen I 1 have 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 I 1 explains incident ene e 9 sassi tea fc t t 4 4 A TOKYO JAPAN the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the chinese incident was ivas marked in tokyo by speeches by army and navy big they told the populace of the great gains made but made no attempt to explain tte the delay in the final breakdown break down of chinas cainas defense above is gen hideki tojo japanese war tear minister delivering one of the main addresses ORIENT japan committed the report that the japanese had landed men in indochina indo china and that most of these would 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 9 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 anther another 0 e eastern astern danger point the russians also demanded that japan sign a aggression non pact without reservations the report of japanese occupation with troops came 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 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 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 23 and had sent it to the senate with the inclusion 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 and 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 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 figure the figures called for medium tanks 1500 1 light 1 tanks and that the biggest item was for antiaircraft anti aircraft guns and that 1000 of these were to have been of 47 inch caliber |
