Evening star., 1943-12-01
Mighty New War Blows
Expected After Talks
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER,


Mighty new blows against the
enemy-mental as well as physical
blows-are confidently expected from
the epochal conversations now re-
ported in progress among the highest
Allied leaders.
Washington authorities, in guarded
speculation on what such talks
might accomplish, emphasized today
that the primary concern of Presi-
dent Roosevelt Prime Minister
Churchill, Premier Stain and
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
must be agreement on measures for
winning the war.
Above and beyond this lie the in
tangible benefits which political OBJ
! servers here believe are to be gained
from close personal relationships.
among the Allied government chiefs
and their ranking staff officers. In
the Anglo-American war effort, they
point out, such relationships fire.
luently have reconciled highly diver
gent views onsstrategy and policy.
/ That the meetings are under way
was reported in Reuters dispatch
from Lisbon yesterday which said
Mr. Roosevelt, Mr.. Churchill and
Gen. Chang already had concluded
long session in Cairo preliminary
to meeting with Premier Stain in
Iran. Later, another dispatch from
Stockholm reported that the United
! States Ambassador to Turkey. Lau-
renee A. Steinhardt, had left Ankara
by air en- route to Teheran, capital
CT Iran.
GA da.ayed dispatch from
An. era ouoted the newspaper
Akcllam as saying Mr.. Roosevelt
had conferred IN Cairo with Mr..
Steinhardt. The United States
Embassy declined comment, but
Mr.. Steinhardt returned to An
kara Monday night after an abb
sence of about a week, the dis
patch saidD
Pacific War Important Topic.
The first three-way discussion
among the British, Soviet and
American leaders are expected to
lCdo W OloSCSJ OO"Ol Va
strategy in the final drives to smash
Germany as we'll as for the solution
Of postwar international problems
untouched by the recent Moscow
conference OF foreign ministers.
Similar results. it is believed here,
m7y be expected from any di~cus-
sio.;s in which Gen. Chi2rg nd his
staff men participate. 1t appears,
however. that much more remains
to be done in unitying direction of
the war against Japan than in CO.
ordinating the European Cffensives.
Barring unforeseen developments.
the most optimistic experts here do
not consider the struggle in the Pa
ciflc more than half over.
Thus many military and political
problems which have had to be
solved by joint action of the Allies
in Europe are only now coming into
focus in the Pacific. In this con-
nection it is significant that con-
ferences between President Roose-
welt and Prime Minister Churchill
{ in the past have resulted ultimately
in considerable action.
Must Rreduce Japan Drastically.
One point on which all the Allies
involved in the Pacific war seem
agreed IS that when Japan finally
is defeated she must be reduced to
minor island power. This was
made clear in President Roosevelt's S
September II speech to Congress, in
which he declared that the United
Nations will deprive her of author
ity over the inundated islands of
the Pacific land the same thing
holds good in the case of the vast
territories which Japan has stolen
from China, starting long before
this war began"
The President also laid down in
that speech the military principle
that the forces operating against
Japan are just as much inter-
related and dependent on each
other AS are the forces pounding
against Germany in Europe"
The weak link in this chain of in
terdependence is China, because her
huge resources in manpower are cut
off from anything more than a
trickle Of supplies from the United
States and Great Britain. It seems
certain, therefore, that strategical
considerations of the three powers
able jointly to defeat Japan must be
concerned first with ways Of clearing
4 supply route into China,