Evening star., 1943-02-14
Editors Of America
Told They Share in
orId-Shaping Task
Dinner Ends Sessions
Of ASNE;; Roy Roberts
Elected President

gress and the British Parliament the
responsibility Of shaping better
world after the war is won by the
United Nations.
The speaker was Col. John Jestyn
Llewelhn, resident minister in
charge of supply. chairman of the
British Supply Council and a for
mer member Of the British cabinet,
who addressed the final dinner
meeting of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors at the Willard
Hotel, attended by 500 editors and
guests.
Col. Llewellin was on the pro-
gram with Economic Sterilization
Director James F. Byrnes, who
talked off the record on imitation
problems. Other distinguished
guests who attended the dinner in
cluded British Ambassador Lord
Halifax, Russian Ambassador Max
i'm Litvinoff, Gen. George c. Mar
shall, Army chief of staff; OWL
Director Elmer Davis, Censorship
Director Byron Price. Bernard M.
Baruch. Leighton Mccarthy. Ca
madam Minister; Harold D. Butler.
attache in charge of information
at the British Embassy; Mai. Gen.
A. j. Surles. in charge of Army
press relations; Capt. Leland P. Io-
yett. in charge of Navy press rela-
tions; Paul Wooton. president of
the White House Correspondents
Association, and Senator Vanden-
berg of Michigan.
Officers Elected.
The election of Roy Roberts,
managing editor of the Kansas City
Star, as president of the society
for 1943-44, was announced. Other
pew officers are John S. Knight of
the Knight Newspapers. first vice
president; Wilbur Forrest, assistant
editor of the New York Herald
Tribune, second vice president; Ben
M. McKelWay. associate editor Of
The Washington Star, and James
North, jr., of the Fort Worth Star
Telegram, new directors.
Basil L. Walters, executive editor
OF the Minneapolis Star-Journal and
Tribune, was reelected secretary,
and David Lawrence, editor of the
United States News, remains as
treasurer.
Col. Llewellin told the newspaper
executives that the British, like the
Americans. have the vision to try
to make this better world when
the war is over"
Press, Congress, Parliament.
THE great molders OF public
opinion" he said, are the press,
the United States Congress and the
British Parliament, and it is ON
these great forces, therefore, that
the responsibility will rest
The British leader emphasized the
necessity OF obliterating any SEM
blance OF diSunity that might ap-
pear between the two allied nations.
"On the field of battle" he said.
there is no room to accentuate any
Of the little differences that exist
between us. On the home front
there is no room either, These dn-
ferences are really so small COM
PARED to the real problems we must
face together
Col. Llewe1lin praised tfle aps
potn tment of Gen. Dwight d. Efsen--
hover as commander of all Allied
forces in North Africa and added.
1T is with this kind of teamwork
hat we and our allies will fight to
victorious conclusion"
British Production.
In detailing Britain,s contribu-
ton to the production of the United
Nations, Col. Llewellin reported
that his country last year turned
out l06 per cent of the pursuit
planes manufactured in the United
States, los per cent of the medium
bombers, rs per cent OF the heavy
bombers, Sc per cent Of the light
bombers. He said Britain built
mot as many training planes as
this country and no transports.
The British supply expert said
that Americas contribution to the
Allied cause, so far as production
was concerned, falls in three phases:
IL. The early days Of the war,
when Britain spent 1900 900 900
here in the purchase of munitions
and in providing plants with which
to manufacture arms.
t2. The Lease-Lend period. "for
which the whole world will be
grateful"
81. The present period, during
which the United States is provid-
ing even more substantial help"
This last phase. the speaker said.
also saw the beginning of complete
cooperation between the two ma
tons in providing facilities. supplies
and equipment for each other.
Supplies Sent TO Russia.
Col Llewellin declared that, de-
spite handicaps, both Britain and
the United States have been able
TO send quite substantial supplies"
&c Russia, and he praised merchant
seaman of both countries for accom-
plishing this task
The editors and their guests also
saw 40-minute colored War De-
partment film showing American
troops in action on the African
front The film was furnished for
the occasion by Gen. Marshall and
Gen. Surles.
Although the dinner formally
Closed the two-day war session" of
the ASNE, during which they heard
of-the-record talks by the Nation $
highest oficials, many of the edi-
tors planned TO remain in town to-
day for special meetings TO discuss
technical problems relating to news
papers.