| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS New United Nations Attacks Predicted As Leaders Determine Grand Frenchmen Reach Tush Germans Out of Stalin In these those of EDITOR'S When opinions are expressed Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not of this Released by Western Newspaper PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL Prime Minister and the continued staffs having completed their plana for the offensive campaign of hate now separated in order to nut them into active and concerted at On a High Plane When the initial surprise of one of the war's stories the Roosevelt Churchill meeting at Casablanca in French Morocco had died the world waited expectantly for the carrying out of the principles of grand strategy laid down by Allied military The Roosevelt-Churchill rendezvous was the definite tip-off of big things to The Allied leaders made it clear that their countries would dig to the bottom of their resources if necessary in order to carry out the extermination of Axis war power as quickly as From a gleaming white villa near Casablanca came the great news But only after complete secrecy had officially ended Correspondents regarded the meeting as one of the best kept secrets of all Virtually the entire war staffs of both nations participated in the dramatic discussions which ended with B press But the presidential air voyage was shrouded in such secrecy that even some cabinet members did not know Mr Roosevelt was out of No one doubted but that further important developments would stem from the One of the most widespread predictions is that the North Africa-Mediterranean area will soon be organized into a separate theater of Thus far the United States forces in that area have been part of the European Separation of Africa and the Mediterranean Basin from the European theater might well be an important factor in the Allied offensive campaigns of the Frenchmen Meet One of the most important achievements of the conference was the bringing of a meeting between Gen Charles de and Henri Those leaders of Fighting French and French Africa announced that they were in complete agreement regarding the liberation of their But it was regrettably clear that any merging of the two movements or any political alliance between them was far from being Offensives Will Tell While the decisions made by military leaders arc observers indicated that concrete results would become apparent with new Allied offensives this The basic questions settled appeared to be The first great must be to drive the Axis entirely from North Africa and free the Mediterranean supply Lf he has not been chosen a supreme Allied commander in Europe will be The anti-submarine warfare and air war against Europe will be stepped Europe will be invaded in one of three Across the a frontal attack on the channel or a conquest of 5 Aid to Russia and China will be stepped up as much as Of immediate interest to the United Nations is the naming of a supreme military The name of George C. chief of staff of the American is most frequently Many observers believed he already been decided upon to head the RALLYING For Russians declare my appreciation to the command and to the gallant Forward to the routing of the German invaders and their expulsion over the boundaries of our motherland So declared Josef Stalin in an order of the day broadcast by the Moscow radio His urging the Russians to throw Nazis out of their became the rallying cry of the Red army as it pushed forward in the big offensives aimed at and After the fall of these strategic points there were still miles of hard battling but for the first time since the Nazis started their invasion of Russia there were definite signs that Stalin's plea was not idle For everywhere along the far-flung front from Leningrad to Caucasus the Reds added momentum to their Russian military quarters estimated that 40 per cent of the Axis effectives had been knocked out by the Red winter the same time diplomatic circles revealed that United Nations air and sea supply lines to Russia were getting much better protection than a few months ago because losses on these routes have dropped sharply One recent U S. convoy was reported to have reached Russia without loss of a single It was indicated that close U. S Russian co-operation was making this FARM Incentive Plan Under terms of the new j program as announced by Secretary of Agriculture Claude U. S. producers stand to pick up an extra million dollars in subsidy payments to be awarded for meeting or exceeding greatly expanded farm production Applicable to grain sweet flax and dried the program would pay growers of uiese crops extra benefits for each acre on which they exceed 90 per cent of their goal up to per cent of that These arc products which are badly needed in the war effort to meet deficiencies in vegetable oils and proteins for animal feeding and human stated further that added labor and materials will have to be available to farmers if they are to the goals of the As a means to this end Secretary and Manpower Commissioner Paul V McNutt released their plans for the mobilization of a volunteer land army of million farm These would be gathered from ranks of the and workers from cities and Aimed at relieving the expected farm manpower which experts predict will reach its peak in this land army would be gathered by the joint activities extension agents of the department of agriculture and by the field of- of the War Manpower More than 12 million farm workers will be needed at the height of the farm said He pointed out that the total farm labor force in was Limit Set With beginning of rationing but a few weeks away the Office of Price Administration established a limit as the amount of canned vegetables and fruits which householders might have on without at the beginning ot the point system This was a drastic cut from the eight to ten cans which it had previously been expected would be When the plan gets under persons who have more than the allowable limits will have coupons torn out of their canned goods ration book up to the point value of the goods held in This will be based on one eight-point coupon for each can over five per household 1 j Excluded from count of five 1 cans per person will be cans containing less than eight Gets an Airing For weeks Washington has reports of unannounced differences of ion between Rubber Administrator William Jeffers and other government and military officials over priorities for the synthetic rubber Finally the dispute was brought into the open when in a Baltimore lashed out at army and navy expediters in war Congress decided to investigate his charges and Donald war pro ducton admitted the fact that a tift in government ranks had resulted over this Most Washington sources knew that President Roosevelt would be required to step in as arbiter in the The quarrel centers around steel priorities for synthetic rubber plants Army and navy officials believe that these plants should be built only in direct relation to the military needs of steel for the production of such items as high-octane escort vessels and merchant ships Jeffers contended that the production efforts could be worked out in conjunction with one another and without hampering progress in his synthetic rubber Extension Sought Congress is already considering the extension of the lend-lease act by another year to June This early action has been taken to insure an uninterrupted flow of war materials between the United States and our fighting Though there are some verbal outbursts expected on the role of Harry Hopkins in the even Republican minority leaders in congress predict approval of an extension for the Two years ago when it was first introduced the United States was not at war and there evolved one of the greatest legislative battles of history over passage of the measure putting the idea in Representative Sol Bloom introduced the new measure just one day after Edward R. lend-lease reported to congress on how the eight billion dollar distribution of aid was made to our Allies under terms of program from March to the end of 1942 In Reverse A heartening promise that after the war the army will do its see that no man is out of military ranks into a has been made to the ROBERT P. PATTERSON system in nation by Undersecretary of War Robert P Speaking in Patterson advocated a post-war selective service system to function as a job placement He explained that war department records catalog each man according to occupation and the demobilization plan would be to inform men about i to leave the army of job l ties in their own That Franco's spark of ence has been extinguished com- by the cold brutality of ism was proved when angry Frenchmen fortified their homes in the old port district of firing on German soldiers who ordered i them to evacuate the district Ger-i man authorities had ordered the I evacuation apparently as a defense I measure against possible invasion I from North The move was made after Nazi officials brought up I field guns and |
