Evening star., 1942-06-19
VituI Decisions
On Allied Moves
Are Awaited
picture on Page A-3.)
., tn. Associated Press.

., tn. Associated Press.
Britain's Prime Minister and
Americas President put their
heads together at secret rem
devious today over in-the-war
strategy, and presumably they
were weighing a number Of
plans, including those for open
ing a second battlefront in Eu-
rope.
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early said he considered speculation
on a second front perfectly
justified"
It was Mr.. Early who announced
last night that Winston Churchill
had come to the United States q
second time within seven months,
bringing with him some of his top
night military advisers, for confer
ences on "the war, the conduct of
the war and the winning of the
war"
Portentous Decisions Awaited.
The spectacular flight of Mr..
Churchill and his party to this
country. converted it for the time
being into headquarters for a major
segment Of the military high COM,
mand of the United Nations. The
entire world looked toward Wash
ington, as a result. for portentous
decisions which might start the war
OF on q new and fateful tangent.
But the Presidents usual Friday
press conference was Cancelled, and
Mr.. Early said no statements need
be expected either from Mr.. Roose-
welt or the Prime Minister during
the rest OF the week.
There was not the slightest
tendency here to minimize the
significance of the Roosevelt
Churchill deliberations, coming as
they did so soon after Russia's
foreign commissar, v. M. Molotov,
had made secret visits to London
and here.
As soon as Mr.. Molotov was
safely back in Moscow. announce
ments were forthcoming Of an
Anglo-Russian 20-year mutual as
sistance pact and of an understand.
ing among Britain. Russia and the
United States on the urgent tasks
Of creating a second front in Eu-
rope in 1912"
Mr.. Molotov's trip was widely re-
earded as an integral part Of re-
Gently developing Allied strategy
designed to keep the common enemy
worrying over signposts pointing in
the general direction OF another
fighting front.
New Front Would Divert Naxis.
Among the signposts were these:
A second front could be counted
on to siphon on some of the Nazi
strength now concentrated on Of
fensives which have set the British
back In Libya and hammered with
terrific force at the doughty Russian
armies in the Crimea and on the
Kharkov sector.
Britain in recent weeks has
stepped up air raids on continental
objectives to a tremendous degree
and promised to send a thousand
planes a night over Nazi-held war
production centers OF Western
Europe.
The United States sent her rank
ing generals to England in recent
weeks for war councils with their
British counterparts, and Gen.
George C. Marshall, Army chief of
stafi, asserted that "the time for
action is near"
The American Expeditionary
Force in Northern ireland has been
reinforced repeatedly by some of
the largest troop conveys ever sent
overseas.
Secretary of War Stimson said
yesterday that at least temporarily
the threat of a japanese attack on
the American West Coast was
much less" as a result of the pun
ishment inflicted on the Japanese
fleet. primarily in the engagements
OF Midway Island. With such a
threat diminished, this country
would be in better position to join
In a second-front operation.
Brooke In Party.
The composition of the military
mission that arrived with Mr..
Churchill was a type to lend en-
eouragement to the idea that con-
versations touching on q second
front were in progress.
For example, Mr.. Churchill
brought along Sir Alan Francis
Brooke, chief of the Imperial Gen.
(see CHURCHILL, Page A-3)