The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
Churchill Calls on Italians to Overthrow Leaders
 and Surrender
  HEAVY AIR BLOWS
 TO STRIKE LAPS Praise for Russian People Voiced By Churchill in
 Washington
BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff CorreSpondenD

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 Washington, May 26. - (UP) - The immediate ob- jective of the Allies appeared today to be forcing Italy out of the war by melting revolt, bombing the country into ruins, invasion-or all three. This will be accompanied by steadily heavier blows against Germany and Japan, according to indications flowing from the new strategy conference of the highest commanders here.
 Prime Minister Winston Churchill advised the people of Italy yesterday to overthrow their leaders and sur render to the justice of the United Nations before it is too late. His blunt statement seemed to point toward an impending Allied drive in the Mediterranean.
 Churchill and President Roose- welt discussed Allied war plans at a White House press conference late yesterday, confining their state mentS well within the bounds of military security. Churchill did most of the talking and his comments on many phases of the war surpassed in frankness his recent speech to Congress.
 The White House disclosed today that MT. Roosevelt and Churchill were working together on brief joint statement about their more than two weeks of war talks. It would not forecast when the state mnet would be released, however.
 Judging from Churchill's 40-min- ute discussion with about 200 Amer ican and British reporters, the AL lied strategy calls for devastatingly heavy air blows against Japan, as well as Germany and Italy, this year, with supporting land opera tions to follow if the softening up process is successful.
 Churchill stressed the advan- tages of air warfore and the Allied aerial superiority over the Axis. At times he was eloquent, even fervent, in his praise for Allied aerial war fare, but in scornful terms he re- pudiated the suggestion that the United Nations would rely entirely on airplanes to pound the Axis to its knees
 He gave the general impression that any big land show against ei- ther Germany or Japan would be preceded by pulVerizing air attack for Germany, more or what she has been getting recently; for Japan, a lot of the same which she has tasted only once so far.
 The first big ground operation against Japan probably will open this fall in Burma, but the big show against the Japanese homeland will be many months thereafter, accord ing to the best information here.
 Churchill said he thought the people under the domination of Benito Mussolini would be we'll ad- vlSed to disoWn their leaders and throw themselves on the justice of those they have offended so griev- ously
 We should not stain our names before posterity by any cruel or in- human actions, he added, saying then that the question of getting out of the war was entirely q mat ter for the Italians to settle among themselves.
 Churchill was adroitly suggestive about future developments in Rus sia when he was questioned about whether the Soviet forces would re- main in the war after Germany IS defeated, and about the prospects of Russia warning against Japan.
 Starting the discussion of the So- viet Union, Churchill cited the Ger man defeat at Stalingrad as one of the classic examples of how Hitler can be defeated. The past 10 or II months, he added, provided indis- putable proof that the tide of war
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