Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21
Churchill 10 Address
World by Radio at
d This Afternoon
May Outline Allied
Prospects for Year and
Give Invasion Hints
By the Associated Press.

By the Associate tee Press.
LONDON, Sunday. March 21.-
Prime Minister Winston Church.
Ill will speak to his nation and
the world at 9 pm. a pm. E. w.
to tonight in an address ex-
pected to outline Allied prospects
in the coming year, and which
may contain hints of the PROM
lsed invasion of Europe.
His radio address, to be delivered
at the beginning of the usual mid
evening news program that has mil
lions of British listeners every night,
will be beamed to the United States
and all the Allied nations.
Mr.. Churchill is expected to speak
Tor nearly an hour. The broadcast
time allows Is minutes for the
speech and news comment following
The Prime Minister'S address, the
first to be delivered by radio to the
entire nation since he went on the
air November % after the North
African invasion to warn Italy to get
out of the war or be knocked out.
Is expected to chart for Britons
their duties and prospects in a prom
ised year of offensive war.
Hitler May Be on Air.
1t comes when Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden is visiting the United
States, and Mr.. Churchill may take
the opportunity to clarity Britain's
relations with its Allies in war and
In the peace to follow.
The Prime Minister'S address will
be the first directly to the nation
since his return from the momen-
tous conferences at Casablanca,
Adana in Turkey, and Cairo which
are believed to have set the pat
tern for the Allied victory strategy
during the nine months ending
next Armistice day. Mr.. Churchill
reported to Commons on February
IL, but tentative plans for a radio
address later were halted by his
recent illness.
If Hitler should speak today-as
he might since this is Heroes Day
for Germany-Britain'S war leader
and word master may get an oppor-
tunity to cross swords with his keen
est European oratorical rival. The
change in the positions of the two
men-with Hitler now the defender
rather than the attacker-would
furnish a spectacular setting for
the two speeches.
May Deal With U-Boat Drive.
Observers said Mr.. Churchill's
speech might possible touch on
An elaboration of the recent an
nouncement of the intensified cam
paign TO defeat the U-boats, on
which Hitler is relying heavily for
eventual victory.
A report on the progress of the
Tunisian campaign, which has been
widely assumed to be tagging be-
hind schedule, and the completion
of which is regarded as an essential
preliminary to a continental in
vasion.
An appreciation for the combined
RAF-United States bombing often
sive which has subjected German
industry to the heaviest blasting in
the history of warfare, and is popu-
larry presumed to be laying a car
pet of destruction in preparation for
invasion.
Some hint of Allied offensive abil-
lty during the coming months-but
With no mention of the time or place.
A reaff1rmation of the good will
among the Allies, with possibly
general statement on Britain's atti-
tude towards postwar planning.
Some quarters believed that in view
Of the sharp interest in British
American Russian relations occa-
stoned by Mr.. Eden's trip, that Mr..
Churchill might dwell at some
length on this topic.