Evening star., 1943-06-06
Invasion Talk Given New Impetus
As Churchill Calls War Cabinet
After Seeing Marshall in Africa
PorIey Follows
Prime Ministers
Return to London
Story and photos of Churchill
Marshall visit to Africa. Page AZ.

Story and photos of Churchill
Marshall visit to Africa. Page Az.
b. the Associated Press,
LONDON, June 5.-Prime Min
lister Churchill hastily summoned
his war cabinet for hours of Sc
cret session Immediately after
his return today from war con-
ferences in Washington and
Africa.
This was viewed in some quarters
as meaning that major military
operations were pending and needed
quick and final approval.
At any rate, his swift actions Gre
ated new outburst of invasion
enthusiasm, and appeared certain
to add to Axis fears of sudden
and simultaneous attacks in many
places.
The meeting in Tunisia of Mr..
Churchill, Gen. George c. Marshall,
United States Army chief of staff,
and African war leaders was noted
here with much interest. and gave
further stimulus to speculation
about an offensive launched from
North Africa.
Can official announcement from
Allied headquarters in North
Africa said the Tunisian confer
ences were held ION details of
plan for striking the most pow
erful possible blow at the Axis
(The Britis h Broadcasting
Corp. in a broadcast recorded by
the National Broadcasting Co.
quoted Gen. Marshall as saying
that I'VE are out to win this war
in the quickest and most eco
nomical way.D
Unusual Activity Reported.
Unusual activity among service
chiefs was reported by the London
press in the wake of the cabinet
meeting.
Mr.. Churchill supposedly told his
ministers the details of his confer
ence with Mr.. Roosevelt. and out
lined plans to carry the war to un-
conditional surrender of the enemy.
He is expected to elaborate some
what at the next session of Com
mons, but few expect him to go into
the finer points of the military prob
lens involved 1t was suggested now
ever, that probably he would be
able to assure Commons that the
plans now made should see the Unit
ed Nations all the way to victory.
Mr.. Churchill returned to Eng
land at dawn today, and hurried to
London.
The final stage If his fight across
the dangerous Bay of Biscav was
made in the dark Of the moon with
picked air fighters accompanying
his bomber and watching anxiously
for the Nazi aerial pack which on
Tuesday shot down a British passen-
ger plane carving Actor Leslie
Howard and IL other passengers.
Canadian Bomber Riddled.
The unusual precaution was taken
In the belief that the Germans were
cunning for Britair's war leader
both when they destroyed Mr.. How
ards plane and when yesterday they
riddled a Canadian bomber on the
same route and forced seven wound
ed flyers to parachute to safety in
Portugal. No t"ece has been found
of the Howard plane or its passen-
gers
Mr.. Churchill wae accompanied on
the final night dash by Foreign
Secretary ANTHONY Eden. who flew
to North Africa to join him in the
North Africa talks. and by Gen. Sir
Alan Brooke. chief Of the Imperial
General Staff who was with him
st the big conference in Washington
where the Allies mapped their global
war strategy.
The Prime Minister'S homecoming
conceded with rash of invasion
talk in England, with mounting
speculation that the first Allied blow
would strike the Italian islands of
Sardinia. Sicily and Pantellerla.
The Daily Mail bore the headline:
Zero Hour in the Battle for Bastion
Islands"
Last night the Rome radio warned
the Italian people that the Allied
attack is coming" and eXhorted the
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