Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1941 — Page 3

FDR'S NEUTRALITY "ACTION DEFERRED

‘Congress May Not Get Plea for F Plea for Revision in Act Until Next Week; President Sees Hull Again; Backers Confident of Favorable Support.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1

(U. P.).—President Roosevelt

today conferred with Secretary of State Cordell Hull for the

second time within 24 hours,

but indications were that he

might defer presenting his plan for Neutrality Act revision

to Congress until next week.

Democratic leaders are convinced they can obtain ma-

jorities to authorize arming of American merchant vessels and to repeal combat zone restriction, but Mr. Roosevelt apparently decided to act slowly.

Mr. Hull, supplementing his two- - hour conference with ‘the President yesterday, spent 45 minutes with the Chief Executive this morning. was. obvious that Mr. Roosevelt, in his continuing conferences with Mr. Hull, was exploring the whole neutrality picture in greatest detail.

‘This was substantiated by White]

House Secretary Stephen T. Early with the remark that “The President wants to finish his discussions with Mr. Hull before he sees the Congressional leaders.” Mr. Roosevelt, at Hyde Park last week-end, had intended to call in the “Congressional big four” today, but changed his plans late yesterday. Mr. Early left the impression that the “big four” would not be called in until next week.

No Senate Obstacles

+ Mr. Roosevelt refused at his press conference yesterday to indicate the extent of neutrality change he would

suggest but it became increasingly evident that the Administration had the neutrality amendment situation better than well in hand. : Rep. Hamilon Fish (R. N. Y.), one of the most vigorous of Congressional isolationists, said he probably would vote to arm American merchant vessels as long as the ships do ‘not enter combat zones. And there has been no suggestion yet of serious obstacles in the Senate. Mr. Roosevelt took a press conference opportunity to deal generally with reports that the Government planned to restrict sharply the size of the new citizens army and to divert all weapons for 90 days or so to Soviet Russia. And he reminded his questioners that on the matter of religious freedom the constitutional guarantees of the United States and the Soviet Union were essentially the same although not stated in the same way.

Quotes Constitution

The President gave a free-hand, accurate outline of Article 124 of the Soviet Union Constitution, the text of which is as follows: “In ordér to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is separated from the state and ‘the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of anti-religious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.” . Article One of the 10 original amendments to the United States Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, is as follows: i prene shall make no law repecting an establishment of religoo or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Churches for Poles

The matter of religious liberty arose when Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether he had seen the Polish

Government’s announcement that churches had been established for the Poles in Russia. Division of Armaments with antiAxis powers became a matter of speculation here after publication of reports that the United States Army’s supply of weapons would be cut off or drastically curtailed fos a period fo speed the Soviet Union’s armament. Mr. Roosevelt said the 50-50 rule of thumb which he had applied all along to division of material ' be-

FINNS CAPTURE RAILROAD TOWN

Berlin Tells of Tank Fight After Surprise Attack in Ukraine.

BERLIN, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—An official news agency dispatch from Helsinki reported today that the Finns had captured Petrozavodsk, 185 miles northeast of Leningrad on the Arctic railroad, and the German High Command reported “offensive operations east of the Dnieper River continuing successfully.” (A Helsinki dispatch to the Rome

newspaper Messagero, sent before the capture of Petrozavodsk was claimed, said the Finns had pocketed and wiped out a big Russian force after 15 days of ferocious fighting through forests and swamps in which troops sometimes were nearly waist deep in mud.) The official news agency reported the repulse with heavy losses of a new Russian attempt to land troops from Lake Ladoga in the Schlisselburg area just east of Leningrad. Describing fighting in the Ukraine, the High Command in its communique issued from Hitler's headquarters, said that in a surprise attack east of Dniepropetrovsk a German tank division captured several Russian artillery batteries and in a sector to the north another tank division destroyed 45 out of a force of 80 Russian tanks. Moscow was bombed during the night, according to the communique. Aside from the dispatch reporting the capture of Petrozavodsk, and the High Command commungiue, disptaches were largely confined to descriptions of German airplane raids on Russian positions. A spokesman said that news Probably would be scarce for a time. He explained that new operations wore “developing” all along the ront.

KILLED IN SLATE FALL CLINTON, Ind. Oct. 1 (U. P.).— One man was killed and another was injured seriously yesterday in a slate fall at the Waukee Coal Company mine at Cententary. The victim was Bert Kuykendall, 45.

tween the United States and other powers still prevailed in substance. On some urgent items more than 50 per cent of our production is going to Great Britain or the Soviet Union while on other items more than half of available production is képt by our own Army. Mr. Roosevelt said it averaged out at about 50-50. He had heard no suggestion of 100 per cent allocations to the Soviet Union but said that some weapons ordered for G.eat Britain under the Lend-Lease Act are being re-allocated to the Russians, who pay for them. He said nobody knows whether the Soviet Union will be given lend-lease privileges. The present act and that now pending in Congress would give them to Moscow subject to Presidential discretion. The President said a report that induction of selectees into the Army would be curtailed to free additional supplies for the Soviet Union might have originated with an inmate of St. Elizabgth’s, a Federal hospital for the insane.

‘| shal

of the great fire raids.

Shown is Queen Victoria St. which The clearing-up process is still in progress after four months and is expected to keep thousands busy for years after the war,

. resmsarRsEem

The four-month lull in German air raids has given people in the British capital an opportunity to clear away the wreckage which littered so many of their streets and to save hundreds of thousands of tons of precious iron and other materials for the war. shen

ered severely in two

Day and night war salvage vehicles pass through the city collecting scrap and rushing it to factories where it is turned into tanks, wheels, planes and ships. Shown is St. Paul's Cathedral, which still dominates the city, where gaps in the building mark the devastation.

struction will come later.

SPEED SHOWN

MOSCOW TALKS

Surprisingly Rapid Work by Committee Brings Final Phase.

y A. T. STEELE WS gt Te MOSCOW, Oct. 1.—The threes power deliberations today entered their final phase. The six committees late last nig completed their deliberations the second plenary session of the. conference will be held this afters

reports. The work of the committee was finished in the extraordinarily shor time of two days with complete absence of red tape, social frills and

* | formality.

Recon-

REDS ‘WIPE OUT’ 9THPANZER UNIT

And Leningrad Placed At 260,000.

MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (U. P)—War dispatches claimed today that the Germans and Rumanians have lost more than 260,000 men around Leningrad and Odessa, and that the 9th Nazi Panzer Division was “annihilated” in a surprise Soviet attack on the southwestern front. The dispatches, summarizing army compilations, claimed that the Germans had suffered 100,000 casualties on the southern and southwestern sectors of the Leningrad front alone, and that the Rumanians had lost 160,000 men in their attack on the Black Sea port of Odessa. In addition to destruction of the 9th German Division, capture of more than 100 machines and considerable booty was reported in the southwestern front operation.

Admit Poltava Lost

Front dispatches said that MarSemyon Timoshenko, commanding the Russian Central Army, had now extended his counteroffensive along a front of more than 200 miles and that he was attacking ell the way from north of the Yartsevo sector, near Smolensk, to south of Gomel. The early communique admitted the loss of Poltava, 80 miles southwest of Kharkov on the southern front, which. the Germans had claimed last week. It was said that the Russians evacuated the town only after a fierce two-week fight.

Odessa Fight Described

Leonid Khamadan, arriving here from Odessa where he was war correspondent for the newspaper Pravda, asserted that the casualties of th? Germans and Rumanians attacking Odessa were estimated at 160,000 and continued at the rate of |p 3000 a day. He said Gen. Ion Antonescu, the Rumanian Premier, had twice visited the front to watch the expected capturé of the city and had even appointed a “governor” for Odessa. The correspondent asserted that as

.|the result of the failure of the Ru-

manians and Germans to take Odessa, several generals and colonels had been executed. Only about 30 per cent of Odessa’s people remain there, Khamadan said. The others had been evacu-

ated to safe areas.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County City Total St

59 51

1940 eesesesssces 40 29

1941 000000000000 47

Accidents.... os Injured ....... 30

MONDAY i COURT Cases Convic- Fines Violations tried tions paid

Speeding ...... 13 i2 $248 Reckless driving 1 11 128 Fallure.to stop at through street - 1 1 2 Disobeying traf- : fic signals ... 0 0 Drunken driving 9 235 78 $691

All others ..... 35 Totals 00000 nn

MEETINGS TODAY Ameciesn, Bar Association, Claypool Sie , Bar C ‘Conference, Hotel Washinga jaw School Alumni, Hotel hue La Sek hool Alumni, bl EL i, Schest Alum

iminal ne Hotel Severin,

pool | Josh noon. a Club, noon.

eo f sunior” Ch Cham ber of Comye Shar otta, ry Sub Eat Te aianapelis, Co-| ¢ tumbide Chun

ug, Beai Estate Board, Propert; Mt Division. Canary’ Oomany

Ce ors Club, 2 M. C. A, Young Men’s Discussion Club, Y. M. C. Spurl Alumni Association, Hotel Seveey Alphs Epsilon, Board of Trade,

Indians Motor Truck Association, Hotel Antlers, noon.

aska Alamny Club, Hotel Washing- ck

ton? 1) 3 o Eon mis” Fi Forum,

" jationers Specialty Union, Hotel Severin, ge Pins Club, Chamber of Commerce, a’ Bociet , Sons of 3h Revolution, 8) ah Arta noon Amaiosn : - MEETINGS TOMORROW Bar Assoc Hon, Claypool

A 2a ior Truck , Hotel indianapolis Y Real Estate Board, Hotel Washing oon

Cottage, | Vi

Hotel Washington, | odist

Construction League of of SRdisuaplls, 231 Bennsylvania 8 ‘Indi agapolis Camera Chub, 110 E. Ninth

8p Beta Thet Canary Cottage, noon. Indianapoils Rote Transportation Club, ne., Fox's Steak House, noon. . Sigma Nu, Columbia Club, Indiana Automobile Insorors Osociation, Hotel Washington, noon. om ————

MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the county Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for names and addresses,

Estel Hanger, 21, of 122 8. Belmont; Marjorie Boswell, ai, of 231 Leota ward Yarnelle, 22, of 6137 Riverview DHve; Kathryn Wertenberger, 24, Wabash,

Benjamin Ladd, 19, of 603 we 13th; Paulie Willoughby, 18, of 603 W August Rugensten 49 of 19 E. Morris; Mary Wilson, 51, of 107 E. Morris Richard Dau rs n of 4031 W —|throp; 9, a 4039 Central. R 8 Salem;

d. 3 . Meridian;

Mary Burke, 19, of 2831 Jac Ralph Motrin’ 3 . Loe Ne "Talbott; Pansy Davis, 29, Whiteland, Ind.

BIRTHS Girls

James, Mary Hiatt, al St. Hracle. George, Mary Cork, at St. Francis.. Russell, Louise nai at Fae Francis. Wiliam Re 8 Fras

Bora % Hie SRY Eleanor French, at 'S.

Earl, Thelma Harman, at St. Vincent's. Fredrick, Marguerite Cunningham, at St.

David, Frances Young, at Methodist. Chester, Louise Cole, at Methodist. pc erett, Mamie Hamilton, at 539 8. Illi-

Boys

Orlando, Fay Rodman, at City. Forest “Catherine Peace, at St. Vincent's. d, Eunice Minton, at St. Vincent's. Jean Miceli, at St. Vincent Wiliam, Rosemary Stader, at St. ’ Vin-

Russell, Jewell Hanger, at Methodist. Mar vin, Mildred mondson, at

Roy. Rileen Ann, at Methodis Fred, Florence Cross, at Sotho st. Paul, Helen Spencer at Methodist. ae Wilkerson, at 2924 W. Virgl, Hattie Sutton, at 1263 W. 38th. Jota, H Helen Fogleman, at 1606 S. Ran-

DEATHS

6, at High mH Ba ier 80, at nfs a 8. Alabama, coronary occlus!

Mary Beikes, oe "af St. Vincent's, carei-

Mar-| "

nd. | Precipitation 24 hrs, ending 7 a. m..

Meth- | 3 ston

Harry M. Schubert, 68, at 52568 Park, arteriosclerosis. John F. Reinert, 46, at 3645 ‘College,

coronary thrombosi Martha Woodman ansee, 31, at St. Vincent s, s, pulmonary embolism. Brown, 78, at 947 W. 33d, saroa Margaret B. Baldwin, at 1433 N. Pennsylvania, carcinoma.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureat ee.

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow.

5:41 Sunset

Sunrise

—Oct. 1, 1940—

6am ..o.... 47 1 p.m. cove 66

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m...... 80.09

Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Partly sloudy to cloud and tomorrow, fam 1 southwes tomorrow; somew Poole in south portion oyna mer tomorrow. Illinois—Partly cloudy to cloudy, occasional rain in southwest tonight and west and south portion tomorrow; slightly cooler in extreme south, warmer in north portion tonight; warmer tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Partly Sloudy tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomor Ohio | — Mostly sloudy, rain in east and south portions tomiEn and tomorrow; cooler in southeast and salreme south portions tonight. sional lIghe Tain. inh Sloudiness, ocsasional 1 rth rtion jos n east portion tomorro ai ehily” BE in extreme north orton

tonight

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Stations Weather Bar. Temp.

amsrilie; = Neves Cloud: 3) 01 Bismarck, N 5 1 Biddy ..Clo udy

Mary Frances Turner, 75, at 437 W. 26th, Sin Francisco

entero Soltis. Daniel W.

isi Club of In - lie Aihiche Op, ei gnapelis, In

I, 1, at, 4 5. Minsgots,{ L

Axis Casualties at Odessa|

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gress was introduced by Joseph Harrington, Chicago. Contrasting with these resolutions is one that seeks the imnmediate repeal of the Neutrality Act, but there is no resolution before the committee which gives blanket support to President Roosevelt and his policies.

Irked by Ruling

Meanwhile, George F. Barrett, At-

torney General of Illinois, resigned from the National Association of Attorneys General last night bee cause he charged that the Association had barred him from broadcasting nationally a speech he described as an indictment of “Naziism, Fascism, Communism and New Dealism.” Mr. Barrett charged that Earl Warren, Attorney General of California and president of the Association, offered to allow him to make the speech yesterday afternoon only behind closed doors and that he would not permit it to be broadcast nationally. The address was broadcast locally, however, over WISH.

Leaves for Springfield

Mr. Barrett telegraphed his resignation to Mr. Warren and then left for his home in Springfield. The “impeachment” resolution presented in writing Monday, called for the American Bar Association to appoint a committee “for the purpose of collecting evidence of overt acts and statements by Franklin D. Roosevelt to create a war situation and that such committee turn over its evidence to the U. S. Senate for the purpose of having

impeachment proceedings instituted

By NOBLE REED

The Neutrality Act was described by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson here last night as an “impediment standing in the way of carrying out our aid to Britain policy.” Speaking before the Property and

ican Bar Association, Mr. Patterson said the success or failure of the Nazis’ drive for world domination “will turn on how much we help those valiant powers who are resisting these tyrants.” “Impediments (neutrality laws) were created by us some years ago in the fond belief that we could legislate peace,” he said. “The time has come to remove those selfimposed impediments in the interest of our national safety.” : The Undersecretary of War reviewed the United States’ aid to Britain but warned that “we must redouble such assistance and we must do the same. and more for Russia.” Discussing the demands that the separate air forces of the Army and the Navy be put into an indepen-

said: “Success in a military mission in

land force are used together de-

dent air command, Mr. Patterson|-

against the President of the United States.” Mr. Harrington spoke in favor of the resolution before the committee Monday afternoon. Shortly thereafter, Palmer Hutcheson, Houston, Tex. introduced a resolution indorsing Snip ed Roosevelt and his foreign policies. This resolution was ruled out of order, however, because it did not comply with the rules and by-laws which stipulate that resolutions must be submitted before the committee opens its deliberations. Another resolution would have the association ask the Congress to pass laws making it a Federal offense to prevent anyone from working: on a defense project “by violence or threat of violence.” “We recommend that the Presi‘dent be free from the restrictions of the so-called Neutrality Act, and that he exercise all of our national rights under treaties and international law.” This resolution was presented by the Committee on Laws relating to the protection of American citizens. and their property in foreign countries and on the high seas, of the section of International Law and Comparative Law. Resolutions were introduced that would recommend ‘to the InterAmerican Bar Association that it establish a Junior Bar Conference of the Inter-American Bar Association. : James D. Fellers, Oklahoma City, offered the resolutions, one to bring such a recommendation from the Junoir Bar Corference of the ga. : A. and one from the A. B. A. e.

‘Neutrality Act impediment To British Aid'—Patterson

mands more than voluntary cooperation between the two. It requires unity of command over all the arms concerned. Unity of command .is far more readily attained if the Ar force is organized to serve with the naval force or land force than if it is organized as an independent force.”

The Undersecretary said the nation’s best military leaders are opposed to a separate air force. “They are the expert witnesses and not just a ‘bunch of brass hats’,” he said. Mr. Patterson said criticism recently. directed at the Army has come from “ill-informed sources.” “Our Army is the strongest we have ever had except when we were engaged in active warfare and the recent Louisiana maneuvers showed the spirit of the troops is first rate and they may be trusted to give an excellent account of themselves,” he said. The War Department, he said, is acquiring munitions for an Army of 3,000,000 men although at present there are only 1,500,000 in the armed services. Rep. Hatton W. Sumners of Dallas, gave a brief speech at the same meeting. . “It is fime that Americans wake up to the emergency confronting us and stop ignoring, the facts,” he said. “We're next on call, he said.

Floor Battle Looming, on Resolutions; ~ Illinois Man Quits Attorneys General

A floor battle over a resolution seeking impeachment of President Roosevelt is expected when the American Bar Association’s Resolutions Committee reports to the general session tomorrow at the Murat Temple. That and another resolution asking for an immediate referendum of association members on whether they favor any “war on land, sea or air” without the consent of Con-

PLEAD FOR UNITY

IN HEMISPHERE

Speakers From Both Sides Of Border Urge Fight To Keep Freedom.

Two men of influence from both north and south of the borders explained the critical need for hemispheric solidarity before members of the American Bar Association today. The speakers were Plerre Casgrain, Canadian Secretary of State, and Dr. Enrique Gil, vice president of the Buenos Aires and the InterAmerican Bar Associations. Mr. Casgrain said: “We peoples of the American countries . may claim to be the favorites of nature and fortune. We all enjoy representative government aiming at a maximum of happiness for a maximum number of ciitzens.

Enjoy All Freedoms

“We all enjoy freedom of religion, freedom of speech and social equality. Not without a touch of pride and defiance, we all breath an unsurpassed. air of liberty blowing from our limitless prairies and lofty mountains, and coming down from our pioneer ancestors, who came. to this continent and toiled and fought and died; so that their children’s children could live and be free. “It is our supreme task now to hand on this inheritance to our childreh’s children by insuring complete hemispneric solidarity and helping to the utmost our power in the fight that goes on so that the world may continue its onward march on the high road of liberty and civilization.”

Almost ‘Holy Cause’

Dr. Gil said: “The cause of American or continental solidarity. is a great cause, one which we may almost call a holy cause. “We should not make continental

solidarity a matter of mere novelty}

or fashion. If we do, we run the risk, by casual usage or. by false invocation, that such a noble concept may sink into worse than discredit— into eternal oblivion.”

Bar Association Program

THIS AFTERNOON 12:30—Section on International and Comparative Law, luncheon, Indianapolis Athletic Club. 2:00—House of Delegates, Claypool

Hotel Severin. Insurance Law, Travertine * Room, Hotel Lincoln. Municipal Law, Palm Room, Claypool Hotel; joint meeting with the sections on taxation and real property, probate and trust law. 2:30—International and ComparaLaw, East Room, Indiana World War Memorial. 8:30—Sir Norman Birkett, K. C. of the English bar, Murat Temple.

10:00—Reception by the president of the association to members and guest. Ball Room, Scottish Rite Cathedral.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 1 (U. P.) —Information from usually reliable sources at Tokyo gave a pessimistic picture today of attempts to relieve tension between Japan and the United States, and predicted an early Cabinet crisis in which Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye must face a showdown. These reports suggested that the crisis would come in about two weeks and that the Premier might again be forced to reorganize his cabinet

“Aif he has failed to Saks Sarorable

progress in exchanges with Washington. 8 In this connection, the following view of the Pacific crisis was given by sources which have access to re-

liable information:

some Japanese leaders toward rapprochement with the United’ Suates

. “The recently hopeful attitude of]

pessimistic. © This is attributed chiefly to indications that the United States has no intention of making concessions. “Japanese Army extremists have strongly resisted any so-called surrender to the United States or Britain and some have even threatened to take positive action in event any agreement is reached at the expense of the present Japanese position in the Far East.” This was taken to mean that the Japanese Army would not give up any part of its Chinese conquests, whereas the fundamental United States position is understood to call for at least partial withdrawal. The United States also was understood to be seeking guarantees

tage of such an agreement

Konoye Facing Showdown Soon if Talks With U. S. Achieve Nothing, Shanghai Says

forts to negotiate with the Chiang Kai-shek Government at Chungking and that “favorable” peace terms would be offered, provided Chungking ceases its dependence on the United States, Britain and Russia and would co-operate with Japan economically. , Chiang Kai-shek, however, apparently has shown no interest in peace negotiations because of his outside assistance. Other informed sources said that Japan's economic condition was becoming increasingly difficult as a result of trade stoppage with Britain, America and the Dutch East Indies, and food shortages and mobilization of manpower in the armed forces. As a result, these sources believed, the Japanese will be forced to attempt by military

Japariess Army extremists. . -|action to break the long-distance le Japanese sources sid

American-British-Dutch “blockade”

NEW OIL BASE URGED INRUSSIA

Communist Paper Calls for Prospecting and Second Baku.

By A. T. STEELE

1941, by The Indianapolis Times he Chicago Daily News, Inc.

MOSCOW, Oct. 1—The importance of a new. Russian oil base— a second Baku—in the region between the Volga and the Urals— is emphasized in a strongly worded ‘| editorial in today’s Pravda. Pointing out that such a plan was adopted as long ago as the 18th Congress of the Communist Party, this party organ says that “since that time much has been done to increase the output of oil but there is still much to be accomplished.” The editorial also calls attention to the necessity of prospecting and boring the Middle Asian regions of Russia, especially in Emba and Bashkiria. It continues: “There are two fundamental tasks: One, to increase production of old oilfields throughout the country; two, to step up the exploitation of new oil regions, esppecially those between the Volga and the Urals and in Eastern U. S. S. R.”

ARREST PEDESTRIAN FOR ATTACKING CAR

DENVER, Oct. 1 (U.-P.).—Thomas F. Walsh, 75, an Irishman and a belligerent pedestrian, today goes to trial for committing assault on an automobile. He said he was two-thirds across an intersection last night and held up his 50-year-old blackthorn walking stick to signify to the driver to let him pass.

But the driver didn’t so Mr. Walsh |.

swung twice with his cane. He broke out two of the car’s windows. A traffic policeman intervened, booked Walsh for assault and the driver, Virgil Lett, 34, for failing to yield the rignt of way to a pedestrian.

The quick conclusion of the come mittee meetings surprised everyones It had hardly been expected reports could be prepared before the week-end. But it was characteristis of the rapid tempo at which the conference is being conducted.

Work Out Technique

The six committees covered the field of army, navy, aviation, transe port, raw materials and: medical supplies. Their job was to work out the technical and clerical details of decisions already made. Equally important were the lengthy private conversations between the heads of the American and British commissions, W. Averell Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook, usually in company with their nations’ ambase sadors, on the broader questions ene tailing the readjustment of existing Anglo-American commitments. If Russia is to receive help speed ily and in substantial quantities; some reallocation of American pris orities involving British sacrifice will be necessary, as will some redivision of Anglo-American shipping are rangements. : Confer With Stalin

Obviously Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook are the only men able to speak immediately and authorita= tively for their governments om these and other like matters of gene eral policy. Hence their presence here is greatly facilitating proceeds ings. Perhaps the most significant fea«< ture of the pattern of this historie three-power meeting is the visits of Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook to the Kremlin where they have already met and conferred with Pree mier Josef V. Stalin three times. Thus it has been possible for per sons of the highest authority to re view the achievements of the cone ference from day to day and so speed up implementation of the Roosevelt-Churchill declaration. The first interview with. Stalin oc curred on Sunday evening a few hours after the missions’ arrival and lasted three and a quarter hours —an unusually long time for a Kremlin audience. There was another long meeting Monday night and still another last evening. On each occasion Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov and former Foreign Commissar Maxim M. Lit=

-| vinov were present.

Plan for Long War There is one point on which the

this conference are unanimously

attitude and the nature of the Soe viet requests reveal Russian determination to fight this war on a long-term basis—for months and years more if “necessary. Nor will the Anglo-American-Soviet co-opers= ation be as one-sided as might be supposed. While Russia is bearing the main impact of Hitler's war ma-. chine it is natural that the biggest" current of materials will go from America and England to this coune try rather than in the opposite di« recticns. But there are also certain raw materials vital to Anglo-Amere ican defense efforts which Russia is

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