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tarv of War Stimson. Gen. George
C Marshall, Army chief of staff. and
1t. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, deputy
chief Of staff for air.
This meeting took place only few
hours after official reports of the
merciless japanese bombing of un-
defended Manila had been received
here-almost simultaneously with
the quietly bitter assertion by Sec
retary of State Hull that the assault
upon the open city was in full
keeping with the Jap record of
barbarism and fiendishness.
Pan-American Meeting.
Presumably. the course of the
Philippines defense was a principal
subject of this conference.
Second conference of the day
found the President and Mr.
Churchill in the colorful Red Room
Jointly receiving the Pan-American
representative for a summarizing of
the war plans as thus far drawn.
In a manifestation of hemisphere
solidarity. II of the 20 republics
to the south were represented at
the meeting with unforeseen OBJ
stacles preventing attendance by the
envoys Of Brazil, Colombia and
Panama.
Carlos Martins, Brazilian Ambas-
sador. and Dr. Gabriel Turbay,
Colombian Ambassador. were absent
from the city and unable to return
in time for the meeting. Illness
prevented attendance by Ernesto
Jaen Guardia, Panamanian Ambas-
sador, whose government already
Is among the II in this hemisphere
engaged in declared warfare with
the axis.
Vice President Wallace, who has
made a specially of working for
Improvement of American rela-
tions and also is chairman OF the
Committee for. Economic Warfare,
attended this meeting, as did Lord
Halifax, British Ambassador
Next on the list of White House
callers were the two principal
spokesmen of the Chungking China
government, DR.. HUI Shih Ambassa-
dor, and DR.. T. V. Soong, recently
appointed foreign minister who has
been head of a financial mission
In this country for several months.
Full Part Assured.
As he left the White House, the
Ambassador expressed to reporters
his satisfaction with developments
and his continued confidence in his
governments ability to play its full
part in this Second World War
At luncheon meeting the Presi-
dent and the British Prime Minister
conferred with Maxim Litvinoff.
Russian Ambassador, and Harry L.
Hopkins. who has been supervising
all phases of the American war aid
program.
Directly afterwards, the American
and British chieftains returned to
the Presidents study to receive DR..
Alexander Loudon, Netherlands
Minister for a discussion of the i'm
portant part which the Dutch en-
pire is to play in applying its great
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ingly potent naval and air power.
In mid afternoon. the President
and Mr.. Churchill returned to the
Red Room with Lord Halifax to re-
ceive the diplomatic officers of the
British dominionS.
In this group, their governments
already contributing to the fullest
to the Empires war effort, were
Prime Minister w. L. Mackenzie
King of Canada, Richard G.. Casey
Of Australia, Frank Langstone of
New Zealand, Ralph H. Close of
South Africa, and Girga Shankar
Bajpai of India.
Refugee Governments.
For the final discussions of the
day, the President and the Prime
Minister called in the representa-
tives OF those valiant refugee gov
ernments which are now function