Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-22
ANOTHER QUEBEC
pkRLEY AND WHAT?

Officially the second Quebec confer
ence is ended. The secrecy veil specially
made for such parleys has been stored
away in the White House awaiting the
next "momentous" use it may be called
upon to peform.
Again a two-man global war board has
met and again ambiguity instead of can
dor as regards the people prevails. Once
more il is assumed that the people have
no business knowing what is going on.
Those close to the cOmmander-ln-chlef
and Britain'S premier put great stress
i'm their whispered announcements that
the meeting of the pair for the second
time on this side of the Atlantic would
fix it all to put the Japs on the run and
that mighty fast.
Summed up. the president assured
waiting America that there would be
"Anglo-American destruction of Japan
as soon as Europe is wreSted from Ger
many
Incidentally official word that the con-
ference had ended came in Joint an
nouncement from the White House that
the President was back from Quebec and
was busy preparing a political speech to
be delivered at a labor leaders party in
Washington.
MlllUdGA secrecy uOSS llOl HOW ueildlu
that the people can not be told only part
truths. Nor is it possible to conceive that
military secrecy" precludes revelation
of the CHASTITY blunders made in the first
two years of preparation to destroy Jap
an.
The conference did nothing to remove
the belief that has been permitted to
settle itself on the public that victory IN
the war is easy. A portion of the report
of the conference said the most serious
difficulty with which the conference has
been confronted is to find the room and
the opportunity for marshaling great
forces which all the Allied nations con-
cerned are arden to engage against the
enemy"
Churchill said all the differences, pre-
sumably built around what share the
British would have in marshaling these
forces, were settled amicably In other
words. to his own liking. Repeatedly the
premier has pledged our whole strength
to smash Japan" but nothing has come
of them.
Not through anything that might have
dribbled through the military secrecy
veil at Quebec, but learned the hard way.
by deductions, but it is known Britain
now is quite willing to send any part or
all its navy into the Pacific to help us
crush Japan. Fine. but the time Is past
for any need of that arm of the service.
What is needed, and what Britain can't
find way to offer. are land forces.
equipment airplanes and so on. SO much
for that.
Does Churchill need to be reminded
that not a soldier, not a piece of land
equipment was even offered in the first
two years of the Pacific when such help
would have meant the difference in open
ing up vast supply lines from India and
the Australia areas to China, and our
hopeless struggle alone to establish this
very vital line of attack on Japan.
AS far as the people know the Paclflc
war must creep along.
But the whole world was let in on the
fact, in a Churchill grand climax, that
he, the British leader, has 'blaze OF
friendship for Mr.. Roosevelt"
Will that be Mr. Churchill's final cam
paign speech before November Z?
The glory of this country is that laws
permit people to speak the truth and
there is always someone brave enough to
speak it.-Capt. Mildred H. McAfee.
WAVES director.
A large number of (Japanese) school
children and college students now are
discharging their duties with high fervor
in munitions factories, amid the din of
machnery-Tokyo radio.