Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1943 — Page 1
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~~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information, announced today that he has asked the state department to make inquiries in Moscow concerning last nights announcement. by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, about. the the hig Three”
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Tass announcement was a violation of shy release date agreed on by the conferees. The Tass announcement—first official confirmation of the meeting of President Roosevelt, Soviet Premier . Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Winston: Churchill marked the second time this week that this government's official news sources had been left at: the post on inter< national conference news. :
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4,1943
“Buntered a Second-Class Matter 1] Postoftice Indianapolis, Ind., Issued haan except Bunday
E Imer Das vis Demands Check
(IN LONDON, Information Minister Brendan Bracken and his top advisers were understood today to be seeking immediate release of a Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin
“smash Germany” communique as a result of Russia's “scoop” on the news of the Stipower conference at
‘Teheran.
“(A new storm of British newspaper criticisny over the 7 : handling of the news, of both the Teheran conference and . ;
RAIN OF BOMBS ROCKS LEIPZIG IN GIANT RAID
New Maneuver by Huge Four-Motors Tricks
Germans; Smoldering Berlin Fires Stoked by Mosquitoes.
LONDON, Dec. 4 (U. P.).—An unusually large force of British Mosquitoes heaped new destruction on burning ~~ Berlin: last. night: while x mighty “parade of: four-engined| * bombers, after feinting toward the capital to confuse enemy forces, rocked Leipzig with nearly 1700 tons of explosives. Though the weight of the new attack on Berlin did not approach that of the block-buster raids by the R. A. F.’s four-engined heavyweights, returning airmen said it probably was the heaviest ever made by the twin-engined
warm INITALY DAZES| ENEMY TROOPS
Nazi Winter Line Riddled By Great Force of
“Allied Power.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec. 4 (U. P.).—American and British troops advanced today in their all-out offensive towaid Rome, capturing the main mountain barrier on the road northward and driving two to six miles through German defenses which collapsed under an enormous weight of tanks, rplanes and guns, : “The ‘massive weight. ir the alied assault left the Germans dazed and crushed in their riddled winter line which was expected to collapse at any time and permit the allied troops through to the open plains leading toward the Italian capital. Reynolds Packard, United Press correspondent on the 5th army
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Reparations Opposed by N. A. M.; Lend-Lease Terms Outlined.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (U, P)No reparations, cancellation of lend-lease debts, creation of a world board of trade and formation of an international loans tribunal were advocated today by the National Association of Manufacturers, which is generally considered to be the spokesman for a large portion of United States business. These policy declarations by this powerful organization followed by 24 hours the N. A. M.'s announcement that it favors internationalism for the United States in the post-war era. The defeated enemy, a report by the N. A. M. post-war committee declared, should pay no reparations
erations, but only for Such nonmilitary damages as looting, “This conclusion,” the report added, “is based on economic experience. Orderly international economic relations between nations are incompatible with both the payment and receipt of reparations during a
The committee suggested the folbowing lend-lease policies: 1. Prompt U. 8. government an-
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allied powers — President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin ~occurred at Teheran. sentatives participated in the conference, at which problems of the warfare against Germany were discussed, as well as a series of political questions.
be published.”
duration of the conference, the
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the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang meeting at’ Cairo was : touched off by the Tass agency's announcement last night of the Anglo-American-Russian conversations.) :
White House Secretary
Stephen T. Early said the
Moscow announcement of the Teheran conference last night was a surprise as far as the White House staff was
“We knew nothing about it,” he told wpress
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- Fire to Balkan Powder Keg Already
_ Sparked by Rumors.
LONDON, Dec, 4 (U. P.)
~~ President Rorrdt Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin were revealed today to have concluded a conference at Teheran at which they
probably put the final stamp
invasion of Western Europe Germany sometime next year,
of approval on' plans for an and the complete defeat of
A communique was expected momentarily that will
call upon axis Europe to “yield or die” and proclaim Ger-
many’s post-wir fate in broad terms that become increas-
ingly stringent for every additional month she resists,
The communique probably will touch off an explosive
lerisis in the Balkans, perhaps leading: to the early collapse of : Hungary, Ruinania and Bulgaria, and “hasten Germany’ 8 ; doom.
Russ Announce News
First authentic details of
the “big three” conference,
_. {about which the whole world has been speculating for nearly A month, were disclosed by the official Russian news agency Tass early today in a transmission over the Moscow radio
' |for Russian provincial newspapers. The Tass dispatch {later was repeated in the Moscow home bros The dispatch, cofisisting of only three paragraphs, said: “A few days ago, a conference of the three leaders of the
“Diplomatic and military repre-
“Decisions were taken which will
Berlin Guesses Though Tass did not indicate the
Berlin radio guessed that it began Nov. 28—two days after the conclu-
Chiang “crush Japan” meeting at Cairo—and ended yesterday. The three heads of state conferred behind barbed wire and minefields, Berlin said. London sources believed military discussions were confined largely to formal approval of Anglo-American plans for an invasion of western Europe at the earliest possible moment in conjunction with ar Intensified Russ army drive from the edst and possibly a thrust into the Balkans to speed their collapse. There have been repeated rumors that the allies were on the point of invading the Balkans from
eastern coast of Italy, from: Africa or from Cyprus with a possibility that Turkey may be drawn into the war under her mutual-assistance
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RUSS THREATEN RAIL JUNCTION
Capture Would Pave Way For Soviet Drive on Minsk.
MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (U. P).~Front dispatches indicated today that a mounting Russian flanking threat may force the Germans to abandon the key White Russian. railway Junction of Zhlobin and pave the way for a Soviet drive on Minsk. The Russian army reached the Dnieper river on a broad front. some 18 miles northeast of Zhlobin yesterday and were believed massing for a crossing in force to sever the Zhlobin-Movilev: section of the Odessa-Leningrad ratiroad. The river normally freezes in this sector by Dec. 12 anid could be. forced with ease over ice. A cross ing before ice forms would be most difficult and presumably costly.
Cutting of the Zhlobin-Mogilev
railroad would leave the German garirson only the railway fo Minsk
over which to flee Zhlobin. newly-captured ports on the south-|_ E