Evening star., 1941-08-16
Roosevelt
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accelerated pace. another of the i'm
minent developments awaiting tht
Presidents return to Washington L
a request to Congress for a secont
lease-lend appropriation-perhaps
as much as 100000 900 to be add
ed to the initial ALLEGATION OF ST.
oOO,O00,000.
Whether any of this free and tree
II given aid will go to the Soviet has
not vet been determined. Shortly
before he left the Capital, Mr.
Roosevelt said the Moscow govern
ment had funds to pay for its sup
plies received here and this condl-
ton probably has not yet been al
tered. 1t is probable, however, that
financial considerations will not be
permitted to temper plans for all
out material assistance to the Red
armies as long as they can maintain
an active front against the Ger
mans and a great pooling of fighting
equipment of the anti-Axis nations
is implied in the note to Stain.
Army Bill Signing Awaited.
Waiting for the Presidents sigma
ture. too, as he returns to the United
States, is the legislation so impor-
tant to the building of our own de-
fenses-the bill extending for Is
months the service of the conscript
army now in training.
Certainly among other decisions
reached in the historic Roosevelt
Churchill consultations, and likely
to be reflected in the course of
events of the near future, are the
steps to be taken by both the British
and American governments If Japan
persists in its aggressions in the Far
East and If the DETECTION of the
Vichy French regime develops to a
point of surrendering Dakar or other
French facilities to Axis use.
Joint economic steps already have
been taken by Britain and the United
States as diScouragement of the
japanese policies but reinforced
military and naval units of both of
these governments are handy in
the Pacific area and shooting
war" may be an eventual develop
ment in that sector.
AS for the French capitulation,
the President has made it clear that
any surrender of strategic Vichy
facilities may precipitate positive
military operations by this govern
ment in the name of Western Hem
isphere defense.
Hopkins Rejoins President.
Belief that the earliest considera-
tion is being given the question of
speeding the flow of material aid to
both Britain and Russia was
strengthened late last night when
it was learned that Harry L. Hop
kins, lease-lend administrator, had
rejoined the President after par
ticipating with him in the Atlantic
consultations and is now aboard the
White House yacht Potomac.
Meanwhile, Lord Beaverbrook
British Minister of Supply and an
other participant in the epochal
consultations. is expediting the Brit
ish end of the lease-lend bargain in
a series of conferences in Wash
ington.
Word that Mr.. Hopkins is with
the President came to the temporary
White House headquarters just be-
fore departure of presidential aides
and newspapermen from Swamp
scott, Mass, last night.
Ship Off Deer Island.
In the first communique received
from the converted Coast Guard
vessel since last Saturday, the PreSi-
dent radioed that the ship was off
Deer Island, that he would land
this afternoon and that all aboard
were well. With him, he said, were
Mr. Hopkins, Admiral Ross T. Nc
Intyre, his physician; Capt, John R.
Beardall, naval aaide, and Gen. Ed
win M. Watson, military aide and
secretary.
This information put to an end,
incidentally, speculation THAI Mr..
Churchill might have accompanied
Mr. Roosevelt to the United States
for continuance in Washington of
their personal consultations.
1t was still hoped by more than
a score of neWspapermen and radio
reporters who had assembled at
Swampscott and are now waiting
here to greet the President that he
will hold a press conference after
debarkation for the purpose of CIV
ing American news agencies their
initial flrst-hand account of the
epochal meeting at sea.