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Roosevelt And Cburehill
Fly To Afriea
The ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Meeting
LONDON 29th Jan.
The dramatic news that President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill, together with their
Chiefs of Staff and advisers, had concluded a ten day conference at Casablanca was flas-
hed throughout the world at midnight last night in 20 languages. M. Stalin had been
invited but was unable to attend owing to his personal leadership of the Russian offensive
operations on the Eastern front, but he was kept fully informed of the proceedings. Gene-
rals de Gaulle and Giraud also met, talked and reached complete apreement.
This significant statement
was issued at the close of the
conference: President Roosevelt
and Britain’s Prime Minister
Mr. Churchill, and the Com-
bined Chiefs of Staff have now
separated to put their plans in-
to active and concerted execu-
tion.
At this historic conference,
which will henceforth be
known as “The Unconditional
Surrender Meeting”, the whole
field of war, theatre by theatre,
was surveyed. All the resources
of the Allied Nations were mar-
shalled for a more intense pro-
secution of th war, and com-
plete agreement reached for of-
fensive action in 1943.
The main objective will be
to draw as much weight as pos-
sible off our Russian Allies, by
heavily engaging the enemy at
selected points.
Service Chfefs Present
A large number of Allied war
leaders also conferred, and
tactical details were worked out
by the highest chiefs of the
Allied Armies, Navies and Air
Forces. Among those attending
from Britain, and coming over-
with Mr. Churchill were Ad-
miral of the Fleet, Sir Dudley
Pound, the C. I. G. S. Sir Allan
Brooke, and Air Chief Marshal
Sir Charles Portal. From the
United Stated came General
Marshall, C.-inC. U. S. Army,
Admiral King, C.-in-C. U. S.
Navy, Lieut.-General H. Arn-
old, C.-in-C. U. S. Air Force.
With President Roosevelt came
Mr. Harry Hopkins, and Mr.
Averill Harriman came from
London with Mr. Churchill. The
British Prime Minister left
London on the 12th of January,
and made the journey in the
same Liberator bomber in
which he made the trip to Mos-
cow last summer. The U. S.
President made the 8,000 mile
journey in a Clipper, ;and the
meeting took place on the 14th
of January. From time to an-
other the meeting was attended
by General Alexander, C.-in-C.
Middle East, General Dwight
D. Eisenhower, C.-in-C. French
North Africa, Admiral Sir An-
drew Cunningham, C.-in-C.
Mediterranean, Air Vice Mar-
shal Sir Arthur Tedder, Gene-
ral Tedder, General Carl
Spaatz, C.-in-C. U. S. European
Air Force and Lord Louis
Mountbatten, Chief of Com-
bined Operations.
Almost Insredibla
Details of the reaction, not
only in North Africa, Britain
and the United States, but from
all over the world, have been
coming in to-day. In North
Africa the news was received
with delighted surprise. The
people could scarcely believe
that President Roosevelt had
fk'wn to attend the meeting —
the first United States Presi-
dent to leave the States in war-
tixne.
Vichy Disreoarded
Messages report that Freneh
North Africa heartily welcomes
the fact that once again the
Allied Nations have pledged the
comnlete freedom and integritv
of-the French Empire, and the
special correspondent of tiie B.
B. C. stated that the Vichy Go-
vernment has already ceased to
be regarded as the Government
of France.
Press Satfsfied
All the newspapers of both
Britain and the United States
to-day express unanimous satis-
faction over this historic con-
ference, and stress the clause
in the agreement that fighting
will continue till the uncondi-
tional surrender of the Axis
Powers is achieved. They also
emphasise that this statement
applies not only to Germany
and Italy, but also to Japan
“Plans Gompleted”
All the leading articles com-
ment on the agressive and con-
! fident tcne permeating the cf-
A Different
Story
London, Jan. 26th.
This is the second occasion
the British and American
leaders have men. The pre-
vious occasion they met was
at sea. Tliis time they have
both flown to their meeting
place.
When they framed the
Atlantic Charter Tobruk was
falling. As they met in Af-
rica, General Montgomery
took Tripoli.
ficial declarations of the con-
ference. President Roosevelt is
quoted as saying that “. . . plans
of operations have now been
completed, which will bring
about the unconditional sur-
render of the Axis Powers, and
a destruction of the philosop-
hies prevailing in these coun-
tries.”
Constant Toucb With
Stalin
The absence of M. Stalin and
General Chiank Kaishek is uni-
versally regretted, and some of
the papers suggest that this
would have been otherwise had
there been a supreme Allied
Council on which Russia and
China had been represented. M.
Stalin, however, was kept fully
informed of all military plans
made at the conference, and the
United States Ambassador, Ad-
miral Standley, saw him last
night and again this morning,
with M. Molotov present. Gene-
ral Chiang Kaishek was also
kept informed on the steps pro-
posed to come as speedilv and
effectively as possible to the aid
f