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to Russia, China, the Netherlands
and other governments engaged in
the common cause of defeating the
Axis
Clancy and GhOrmley Active.
Steps toward this objective are
under way.
Maj. Gen. James E. CLANCY and
Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley
have been representing the United
States in London for some time.
Admiral Sir Charles Little, 1t
Gen. Sir Colville Wemyss and Air
Marshal A. T. Harris have been rep
resenting Great Britain in WASH
ington"
That such consultations are under
way and are to be broadened into a
full-dress Allied council, perhaps
with an eventual supreme command,
bears out repeated assertions by
President Roosevelt that German
and japanese operations are part
of a grand strategy of aggression
which can be matched only by a
similar all-embracing fighting plan.
World Strategy Essential.
Their strategy is world wide" the
President said in letter to Con-
gress last Monday on intensiflcation
Of American lease-lend aid. Ours
also must be worldwide"
Mention of the desirability of a
supreme war council also has been
made publicly in London and there
have been speculative reports from
the British capital that Prime Min
lister Churchill and Foreign Min
lister Eden might come TO Washing
ton for discussion of such a project
To such q possibility, Secretary
Early answered yesterday: Il don't
know anything about it. If they
were coming, 1 would not tell you
and you would not be able TO publish
anything about it,
While the projected inter-gov-
ernmentsl discussions took first
rank in current news Of planning
for prosecution of the war, interest
likewise attached to reports that
4NOOSCNOlO SOlAoioCl B
creation Of domestic war council
with extra cabinet authority.
Four Mentioned for Council.
Mentioned for places on such a
body. which would relieve the Pres
ident Of much immediate admins
trative and policy making response
/ bility. are Vice President Wallace
/ Admiral William D. Leahy. now
Minister to the Vichy French gov
ernment; Wendell l.. Willkie, Re-
publican presidential nominee in
1910, and Philip Murray, president OF
the Congress of Industrial Organi-
/ cations.
First reports that international
| Joint deliberations were under way
here arose a week ago after a Sun
day morning conference at the
White House between the President
Secretary OF War Stimson, Under
secretary Of Navy ForreStal. anc
Viscount Halifax, British Ambas-
Sador.
A clear hint that the Russian
government would favor unity Of
planning and Of action was giver
last week by Maxim Litvinoff, new
Soviet Ambassador.
Diplomatic liaison has been con-
slant, of course, between this Gov
eminent and the Dutch and Aus
tralian governments, important
factors in the Pacific war, but tc
this point it is believed that en-
phasis has been more on economic
than on military and naval prob
lens.
Rio Meeting in Picture.
Fitting into eventual convocatior
Of an Allied planning group may be
the nter-American defense con-
ference scheduled to open in Rio dc
Janeiro on January IS. Including
the United States, 10 Of the re-
publics to be represented at thi:
consultation already are at war with
the Axis, two more have broker
normal diplomatic relations, ano
the remainder may become full
f1edged participants in the conflict
| With fighting coordination ack-
nowledged to be the greatest need
officials Of both the British anC
American governments recall tha
in the first World War unity o.
command in the economic field wa
easier to attain than in military
operations. Not until April. 1918
seven months before the end of hos.
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