The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-29
Roosevelt Warns ItoIy
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Stal1n. For Russia, especially, ne bespoke the constant friendship of the United States in the world of the future.
 Although the United Nations are substantially agreed on general post war objectives, 1t is too early to at tempt to discuss all peace terms and all future details, he said.
 we must not relax our pressure on the enemy" he continued, "by taking time out to define every boundary and settle every political controversy in every part of the world. The all important thing now is to get on with the war"
 MT Roosevelt promised early serious and constructive plans" on the home front dealing with food, manpower and other domestic prob- lems. He did not go into detail.
 But for war veterans he proposed a deta lied program of benefits which undoubtedly will figure in the 1944 presidential campaign unless 1t is enacted by congress prior to the next election. The program, other than as 1t related to disabled veterans, would facilitate and in large meas ure underwrite the costs of re-entry of service men and women into civil life either as workers or as students at government expense.
 Three-Line Sentence
 In three line sentence, Mir. Roosevelt rebuked those Americans who, playing party politics at home," ridicule postwar foreign policy planning as "crazy altruism" and "starry-eyed dreaming" That reference was regarded as a kind but not too vigorous gesture toward Vice President Henry A. Wallace whose chances for renomination ap- pear to be slight since he was stripped by the president of all par ticipation in the war effort except in his capacity as presiding officer of the senate.
 MT. Roosevelt had his eye on Italy as he talked. And he promised that Tojo and Hitler would follow Mus- solni into ignominious retirement.
 "The first crack in the Axis has come" said the president, echoing the exultant thought of the millions who heard the news of MussoLni's resignation Sunday.
 Jig Is Up
 "The criminal, corrupt Fascist re- gime in Italy is going to pieces. Mus sol1ni came to the reluctant con- clusion that the jig is up;' he could see the shadow of the long arm of justice.
 "But he and his Fascist gang will be brought to book, and punished for their crimes against humanity. No criminal will be allowed to escape by the expedient of resignation. Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan unconditional surrender. We will have not truck with Fascism in any way, shape or manner. We will per- init no vestige of Fascism to re- main."
 That language was deemed here to be a warning to Madoglio, the new Italian prime minister, to be ready to deliver Mussolini and his associates to General Dwight D. Eisenhower when the surrender comes. The president said the war in Sicily and Italy must go on and will go on until the Italian people realize the futility of continuing to fight in a lost cause"
 To the Italian peopIe-and the Axis populations in general - MT. Roosevelt promised immediate food, security and order as the United Nations take over and for the fu- ture he reiterated the four free- doms guarantee. We are determined, he said, to restore the conquered peoples to the dignity of human be- gins. But he warned against op- timism as well as pessimism and said talk of winning the war this year or of its prolongation until 1s49 were, respectively, extreme ex- amples of what he meant.
 German Failure
 He found much that was encour- aging, however, on the war fronts. He considers the German summer offensive against the Russians to have ben failure. He reported con- tinued success of the war against the U-boats, but warned that we never know when the rate of sink ings may rise again.
 We are still far from our main objectives in the war against Japan" the president said, and stated those objectives to be attack on the Japanese islands themselves from the north, east, south and west. But we are growing stronger in the Pacific, we have seized the initiative and we mean to keep it, he added.
 MT. Roosevelt said Japanese air and shipping losses had been be- yond the power of Japan to replace and for that reason he looks for them to withdraw somewhat along the enormous front they have been maintaining. They cannot, he be- lieves, continue to supply their far flung armies on so great front.
 "If the Japanese" he continued, "are passing their future plans for the Pacific on long period in which they will be permitted to con- solidate and exploit their conquered resources, they had better start re- vising their plans now. In the Pa- cific, we are pushing the Japanese around from the Aleutians to New Guinea. There, too, we have taken the initiative and we are not going to let go of it."
 We Are Delivering
 MT. Roosevelt could say only that we are delivering planes and vital war supplies for the fighting Chinese and that we must do more of that at all costs. The manner of his ref erence underscored the obvious fact that the China front still lags be- hind all others in obtaining fighting tools because of the tremendous supply difficulties. It was with equally obvious satisfaction that MT. Roosevelt reviewed the situation on the Russian front where he &C., knowledged that "the heaviest and most decisive fighting today is go-