Evening star., 1942-03-17
Litvinoff Again Urges
Second Front, Sees
Bigger Risk in Delays
Roosevelt Note to Dinner
Says Axis Efforts to Split
Allied Unity VIII Foil
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. March l7-Maxim
Litvinon, Soviet Ambassador to the
United States. last night again
called for a second war front. de-
claring that "'Time is but treach-
erous ally. ready to fight on either
side"
Would not the shortening of the
war in itself be worth some risk2"
he asked in his address at the
Economic Club of New York dinner,
then said:
I'VE have not driven them tthe
Nazis) far-at the most 200 miles
here and there-but it Is obvious,
is 1t not, that II our strength can
be increased, or-which may be
easier to schieve-if the German
forces can be split or weakened on
the eastern front by diversion else
where, it will be possible to push
them still further back, to the Ger
man frontier, to Berlin and beyond" I"
In a message to David Sarnoff
club president, President Roosevelt
said The supreme strategy of VIC
tory must be for the United Ma
tions to remain united-united in
purpose, united in sympathy and
united in determination"
Halifax Promises Offensive.
Declaring that the supreme
achievement of enemy propaganda
would be to create disunity," the
Chief Executive said:
Those who cry for divided ef-
forts in an indivisible war, those who
are blind to the fact that security ut
home may be menaced by disaster
abroad, those who encourage di-
vided eounsels In this crisis, those
who viciously or stupidity lend them
selves to the repetition of distortion
and untruth are serving as obliging
messengers of Axis propaganda.
Such errors, you and I know,
will break into mere foam against
our rock-bound resolution and the
rising tide of production and man
power by which we shall overwhelm
the enemies OF freedom and degnoc-
racy."
Lord Halifax, British Ambassador
said in his address that we can
certainly promise him tthe enemy
that we have no idea of fighting
this war on q merely defensive
strategy, which can never bring total
defeat to Hitler and his associates,
and that the last thing which we
have in mind is to leave them with a
monopoly of initiative"
InvincibiIity Exploded.
Declaring that the legend Of the
invincibility of the German Army
has been exploded" M. Litvinoff
said:
THE further back the German
armies are pushed the greater their
Generalization, the greater the fer
mentation of discomfort within Ger
many. the greater will be the activity
shown by the Hitler hating popula-
tions In the countries he has SUBJ
jected, populations only waiting for
a signal to decisive action. And the
only signal they will recognize will
be a serious defeat for the German
Army"
The Soviet envoy declared that
"the practical ways for winning a
victory over Hitler are for the first
time In sight" adding:
There may be much greater and
more actual risk in waiting, in doing
nothing, In letting slip one oppor-
tunity after another; and action in
volving risk has at any rate some
chance of success, whereas inaction,
also involving risk, Is practically
never crowned with success
Other speakers at the dinner in
cluded DR.. HUI Shin, Ambassador OF
China, and DR.. Alexander Loudon,
Minister OF the Netherlands govern
ment In exile, and Wendell L. Willkie.