Evening star., 1942-08-07
Strategy PorIey Of
Great Importance
Is Indicated

boNbON, aug. f.-tepIcSGIlGd -
tives of major United Nations
were reported assembling in
Moscow today for a save Rus
sia and win the war" confer
ence, the urgency of which was
! accented by the increasingly
desperate plight of the southern
Soviet Armies.
This information came from
sources whose identity could not be
disclosed. The British themselves
maintained dead silence on the
movements of their own leaders ex-
cept for their Ambassador to Russia,
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, who has
gone from Kuibyshev to Moscow
along with the United States Am
bassador, Admiral William H.
Standley.
Dispatches from Moscow said con-
ferences were proceeding today be-
tween Admiral STANDBY, Maj. Gen.
Follett Bradley of the United States
Air Force and Soviet officials.
Has Yet to See Stain.
A Moscow communique announced
thai Gen. Bradley, who arrived in
Moscow by bomber three days ago,
came for "a discussion with the ap-
propriate Soviet authorities of prac-
tical questions connected with the
supply of arms and war materials
to the USSR from the United
States"
The Moscow dispatches indicated
that Gen. Bradley had not yet seen
Premier Stain, for whom he brought
letter from President Roosevelt.
German-inspired report re-
garding the reported second front
conference said Laurence A. Stein
hardt, former United States Am
bassador to Moscow, was on his way
there from his present post at
Ankara.
Direct word from Moscow, how
ever, said it was Admiral Standley,
not Mr.. Steinhardt who had ar
rived, and that Mr.. Steinhardt was
not expected.
For the past week the Axis
radios have been circulating "un-
confirmed rumors" that Prime
Minister Churchill was in Mos
COW along with William c.
Bullitt, special envoy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt)
Already known to be in Moscow
besides Clark Kerr, Admiral Stand
ley and Gen. Bradley are Roger Gar
reau, head Of the Fighting French
mission to Russia, and Mai. Gen.
William Stef1ens, Norwegian mil
tary attache at Kubyshev.
The Moscow consultations were
interpreted in London as an effort
to give fuller recognition to the in
dispensable part being played by
the weary but unbeaten Soviet
legions in the worldwide strategy of
the United Nations.
There was little doubt in London
that wherever and whenever Allied
leaders gather these days their de-
lberations are centered on what
Anthony Eden, British Foreign Sec
retary, called at one time in the
anglo treaty negotiations
the urgent task of creat ting second
front in Europe in 1912"
Cast Being Assembled.
AS reports streamed into London
from both Axis and Allied sources
indicating that the cast was being |
assembled for grand strategy talks
Of the utmost Importance in the
Soviet capital, Lord Beaverbrook's |
Evening Standard coupled these
black faced banner lines:
Allied diplomats reported gather
ing in Russia"
Germans speed up oil field drive"
In the same edition Cartoonist |
David Low pictured the hope and
belief OF many Britons with a car
toon showing Premier Joseph Stain, |
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek seated side by side in a
truck with four steering wheels.
The truck was labeled Correlation
OF strategy" and the caption said:
Now supposing we ali try to go
somewhere together"
In the background of the United |
Nations talks were repeated warn
ings from Allied headquarters that
Japan intends to knife Russia soon
in the Far East.
These warnings were reiterated
today by DR.. George Yeh, London di-
rector of the Chinese ministry of
Information, who said the japanese
appeared to have deployed their
forces on the Russian frontier both
for attack and for defense against
Chinese-Soviet flanking attempts.
DR.. Yeh said more Japanese troops
were moving north to reinforce up
ward of half million already re-
ported there and that 1000 japanese
planes had been concentrated in the