Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-02

Second Front Mapped
In CosobIunco Tolks
With Churchill
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and Henri Giraud, French leaders
was helping the cause Of the enemy
q. S. Seeks to Arm French.
He volunteered the information
that every effort was being made tt
supply modern arms for q French
army under Gen. 0iraud.
The Chief Executive remarked
that Gen. Giraud said he could pu
250,000 men with some militar.
training in the field, but apparent.
had raised his sights since the Casa
blanca conference. Since then Gen
Giraud has spoken of an army O
100000.
The President said he believet
there is going to be a greater degree
OF cooperation between the French
forces of General Giraud and Ok
Gaulle as the result of getting the
two leaders together during the
casablanca conferences.
He found on the whole, he said
q good spirit between the American
and French military and naval
forces operating together In North
Africa, despite the casualties on both
sides when the French obeyed
orders at first to oppose the Ameri-
can landings last November. He
said most Of the French soldiers
were thrilled by the coming of the
Americans and did not want to OPP
pose them, but obeyed orders.
After giving . word Of praise to
the press and radio for living up
faithfully to the request Of the Of
nee Of Censorship that secrecy be
maintained about the movements OF
his party, the President noted that
he never was out Of touch with
Washington. even while travelling by
air. He placed the length of his trip
ct 1855 miles.
The whole journey, Mr.. Roosevelt
said, was essentially military mis-
sion.
The President. appearing slightly
tanned and In the best OF health,
reviewed many sidelights Of his "a
day, l6066-mile trip In talking With
correspondents, and said the only
thing he didn't like about 1t was
that he had to get up by 4:30 or
B am. several mornings for early
airplane take-offs.
He recalled that he had q birth
day party In = plane 5000 feet above
Haiti. This was last Saturday when
he was flying from Trinidad to
Miami, whore he boarded q train for
Warrington Saturday night. The
birthday party included cake with
SIX candies around 1t and one In
the middle, he said.
while In CasabIanca, the Pred-
dent said, many Of the Army officers
were worried about the possibility
of air attacks, and suggested that
he and Mr.. Churchill should move
shout every . hours. to make It
more dtncult Tor the enemy to dis-
cover their whereabouts. They were
too comfortable where they were,
however. he said. and 70 remained
In one place. u; red ssagn ii. ass
Thsre were two yellow. alerts,
warning Of = possible air raid. dur
ing their stay. but no German planes
arrived, he added.
M. Roosevelt hid the conference
w1s wen protected BY m entire
regiment Of infantry, and harbed
wire entirely surrounded the bead
quarters.
The Secret Service devised some |
new method for protection, the
president remarked With 4 laugh. |
BE explained that Secret Service
men believed there was slight risk |
lrom the native population but |
feared that some Frenchmen there
might become 90 excited about their |
own Affairs that they would get ex- |
cited about seeing him on his long
trip to inspect American forces In
the field.
One Of the devices used was to
point UP In the sky and say, "Oh.
look there when the Secret Service
agents. saw any European on the
road ahead Of the jeep in which the
President was travelling. thus divert
ing their attention, Mr.. Roosevelt
said. In another case the spec
tators' attention was diverted by one
Secret Service man pretending to
fall out Of jeep. being pulled back
By one Of his companions.
The last day he and Mr.. Church.
III were together, the President said.
they went to Marrakech. which he
described a. q most amazing place,
principally because the Prime Min
lister wanted to do some painting
there.
In Marrakech, Mr.. Roosevelt ex-
planned, there Is q wonderful old
tower built to celebrate the capture
Of Spain by the Moors centuries ago,
and from the city there Is o beau
tiful view OF snow-capped noun
tains In the distance.
WAACS Invited TO Dinner.
Mr.. Churchill started some
sketches Of the sunset the evening
they arrived there, Mr.. Roosevelt
said, adding that when he left him
early the next morning, the Prime
Minister planned to spend the day
painting before departing for hi
conference with the President Of
Turkey concerning q closer relation
ship with that country In prosecu-
ton of the war.
The President also remarked with
pleasure on meeting at Casablanca
i've WAACS, who handled the tele'
phone and stenographic work fol
the conferences. He said he had
them all to dinner one evening. HI
said the I'VE women were on ship
which was torpedoed In December
finally reaching Africa with nc
clothes except those they were wear
ing.
The President gave the names Of
the WAACS as Louise Anderson