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5th Army Captures
New Italian Heights;
Marshalls Hit Again
Position Commands
Road to Rome
West of Mignano
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Dec. 6.—The American 5th
Army, by - passing German
strong points, has captured new
heights commanding the road
to Rome west of Mignano, while
the British 8th Army's drive has
carried to the Moro River, 10
miles beyond the Sangro, Allied
headquarters announced today.
The Nazis launched strong coun
terattacks against American and
British infantry in bitter hand-to
hand battles, and threw in fresh
reinforcements including mecha
nized carriers against the 8lh Army
in a desperate attempt to halt the
smashing Allied drives. A flame
throwing tank was captured by the
British.
A counterattack west of Venafro
was hurled back by the 5th Army
With severe enemy losses.
More High Ground Taken.
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's head
quarters announced that the Ger
mans, who are fighting stubbornly
for every inch of ground, had been
driven from three more commanding
elevations by the Americans who are
smashing into Nazi fortifications in
the area of the rugged slopes of
Mount Maggiore. British infantry
of the 5th Army are rooting out
Nazi defenders in the equally-rough
area of Mount Camino.
From their newlv-won positions
the Allied troops could gaze out
across the valley to Cassino, and be
yond it to the \ alley which leads
northwest into Italy's capital.
In one sector, small units of Ger
mans still holding out on the sum
mit of a ridge were cut off by the
Allied drive well beyond.
Destroyers Aid Offensive.
British warships, steaming boldly
within range of enemy shore bat
teries. were disclosed to have sup
ported the 8th Army's drive up the
Adriatic coast in recent days with
bombardments of German supply
routes, bases and shipping.
The British destroyers bombarded
the coastal road between Pescara
and Giulianova. sent shells into the
coastal towns of Ancona and San
Benedetto, and sank three enemy
coastal craft and a merchant vessel.
Aerial support of the Allied ground
forces was limited by bad weather,
but the enemy-held Yugoslav port
of Split was bombed yesterday by
medium bombers and a floating
dock at Orbetello. on Italy's west
coast, w'as hit and left burning.
The 8th Army’s drive to the Moro
River represented a gain of about
two and a half miles from San Vito,
capture of which was announced
yesterday, and carried the Adriatic
offensive to within 14 miles of
Pescara.
German losses on the Adriatic
front were described officially as
heavy. “In some places on the
mountains the Germans had dug
into solid rock to a depth of 8 feet,
and had to be driven out in hand-to
hand combat.’’ a headquarters
spokesman said.
Gen. Clark's 5th Army punched on
through similar formidable defenses.
Mount Maggiore and Mount Ca
mino are about 3 miles southwest. of
Mignano. through which winds
Highway No. 6. the road to Rome.
Allied headquarters said the Nazis
had thrown nine divisions. 100.000 to
135.000 men. into the defense of the
line they had hoped to hold through
the winter.
Although no mention was made
of forces the Germans may be hold
ing in reserve nearer Rome, it is
known that Nazi forces have been
pulled southward from Marshal Er
win Rommel's pool in the north.
fresh Allied forces.
Reinforcements also have reached
Italy for the great Allied offensive,
a. belated dispatch from an Allied
held port disclosed yesterday. It
said Canadian tankmen and motor
ized troops had arrived after an un
eventful crossing.
Reports that an Italian army of
more than 50.000 men was poised in
the Abruzzi Mountains in the line
of the German retreat before the
British 8th Army came, meanwhile,
from non-belligerent Spain.
An Argentine just arrived at Bar
celona from Italy said there were
reports that the Italian Army was
preparing for action against the
Nazi rearguard in the Adriatic sec
tor.
Chinese Pursue Japs
Retreating in Hunan
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Dec. 6.—Japanese
forces in Northern Hunan Province
have been defeated and Chinese
forces are continuing to attack the
retreating enemy, a Chinese com
munique announced last night.
The communique said reports
from natives In the area declared
that the Japanese were retreating
“in a most disorderly condition,’1
and were carrying "a large number
of wounded.’’
In fighting in various sections of
Hupeh Province the Chinese com
munique announced gains and said
300 Japanese troops had been killed
in the northeastern section of King
men on the Kingmen-Tangyang
highway.
Delinquent Tax List
The first installment of the
1943 delinquent tax list for
the District of Columbia will
be published in The Evening
Star tomorrow.
100 Carrier-Based
Planes in Raid,
Tokio Reports
B? the Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—A Tokio
broadcast quoted Japanese im
perial headquarters today as
saying that a fleet of 100 car
rier-based Allied planes had
raided the Japanese-held Mar
shall Islands yesterday morning
and admitted that the attack
had caused some damage.
The broadcast, recorded by Ped
eral Communications Commission
monitors, declared that 20 of the
raiders had been shot down.
The Navy Department announced
last night in Washington that Army
Liberator bombers had raided Mili
Atoll in the Marshalls and Nauru
Island Saturday, but it was not im
mediately clear whether the Japa
nese were referring to this attack.
The fact that the Japanese said
the raid was carried out by carrier
based aircraft, however, indicated
they were referring to a different
operation or that they were mis
taken about the type of planes in
volved, for Liberator bombers are
too large to operate from carriers.
The Tokio communique also re
ported that Japanese naval airmen
had pursued the Allied task force
and had sunk one medium-sized air
craft carrier and a large cruiser. A
large aircraft carrier and a cruiser
were damaged, the bulletin added.
Aussies Repulse Japs
In Wareo Counterattacks
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 6 —
Australian troops with the aid of
artillery and air cover pressed
steadily toward Wareo on the stra
tegic Huon Peninsula of New Guinea
today after repulsing three Japanese
counterattacks.
The Aussies, victors of Sattleberg
four bitter miles to the south, turned
back the counter thrusts Saturday
with the help of artillery. Attack
planes ripped up the Japs' rear
positions.
These Australians were spurred on
by the likelihood of early support
from two other digger elements also
closing in on Wareo's strongly- ■
defended heights. One unit cap
tured Bonga 4 miles to the east last i
week and pushed inland, and the j
other was coming up from the
southeast. ;
Bombers of the South and South
west Pacific commands likewise
pushed their ceaseless offensive,
dropping heavy bomb, loads which
left targets aflame on Bougainville
and New Britain Islands, while the
7th Army Air Force reached deep
into Japan's defense perimeter to
start fires at Hare Island in the|
lonely Central Pacific atoll of Ka
pingamarangi. only 400 statute miles;
southeast of the major Japanese
base of Truk.
Liberators also bombed Mili Atoll
in the enemy-controlled Marshall
group, starting fires and destroying
a grounded medium bomber and set
an oil dump afire on Nauru Island
southwest of the newly-conquered
Gilberts. Fifty tons of bombs were
dropped on Mili.
The Japanese made their first re
taliatory attack on American forces
which captured the Gilberts. After
three previous unsuccessful tries,
enemy bombers got through to Ta
rawa Atoll, where they caused slight
damage and wounded three men.
and to Makin, where no damage was
done.
Japanese positions just south of
the American beachhead at Empress
Augusta Bay on Bougainville took
a 95-ton aerial pounding which
wiped out a 250-foot bridge and 40
buildings, including barracks and
warehouses.
Sixty-three tons of explosives were
dumped on Cape Gloucester at the
southwestern tip of New Britain Is
land nearest to New Guinea. Here
179 tons were unloaded the day be
fore. Fires were started and gun
emplacements silenced in the newest
attack.
Heavy bombers hit enemy shipping
in the Bismarck Sea. possibly dam
aging an 8,000-ton transport which
; was part of an 11-ship convoy and
leaving a 1,500-ton cargo vessel out
of control nearby.
The Japanese sent 25 torpedo and
dive bombers against an American
troop and supply convoy moving
into Bougainville from the west, but
our fighters swept into action and
— (See-PACIFIC, Page A-16.)
ALLIES AT CONFERENCE—Heads of the triumvirate of Rus
sia, the United States and Britain, meeting with their military
chiefs, pose on the portico of the Russian Embassy at Teheran,
Iran. Seated <left to right*: Premier Stalin, President Roose
velt and Prime Minister Churchill. Standing in back • left to
right): Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of United States Army Air
Forces: an unidentified British officer. Admiral Sir Andrew
Browne Cunningham, chief of naval staff, and Admiral Wil
liam Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt. 'Other Pic
tures on Page A-3.' —A. P. Photo from 12th Air Force.
Reds Near Mogilev,
Key Railroad Center
In White Russia
Other Soviet Forces
Squeeze Nazi Defenses
In Gomel Sector
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—Smashing
ahead northwest of Propoisk.
the Red Army today was threat
ening Mogilev, one of the last
important German-held rail
centers in White Russia, as
other Russian units squeezed
the Nazi defense lines near
Zhlobin and Rogachev in the
Gomel area.
A Soviet communique said the Red
Army hurled back German counter
attacks and swept forward north
west of Propoisk to capture the
heavily fortified strongholds of Var
odol. Bahki and Zabluka.
Front dispatches, telling of deep
Russian penetrations virtually from
one end of White Russia to the
other, said the Germans were be
ginning to show signs of a lack of
reserves and were using engineers
as first line troops in some sectors
of the snow-swept front.
To the south in the Kremenchug
area, the Russian war bulletin said,
Soviet units captured several strong
points after fierce engagements
which often developed into hand-to
hand fighting. Large losses were
declared inflicted on the Germans.
Nazis Attack Near Cherkasy.
The communique said the Nazis
were continuing to attack in the
Cherkasy area, between Kremen
chug and Kiev, but all their assaults
were repulsed. Four hundred Ger
mans were killed at one point, the
bulletin said, after a tank and in
fantry smash was beaten back.
The German radio, in a broadcast
recorded by Reuters, said the Rus
sians had broken through the Nazi
line south of Cherkasy, but ‘'the
greater part of the penetrating force
' was wiped out.”
I A Gsrman communique said yes
terday that the Russians had
launched fierce new attacks in the
Crimea from their bridgehead
northeast of Kerch, but were hurled
back. Rumanian satellite troops, the
Nazi bulletin said, broke through
Soviet positions south of Kerch and
dashed for the coast. The Russians
\ See-RUSSIA, Page A-3.»
Mrs. Roosevelt Plans to Check
On Colored Housing Situation
Mrs. Roosevelt is worried
about spread of both disease and
immorality this winter among
the colored people living in
crowded Washington slums, she
said at her press conference to
day.
The President’s wife said she in
tends to make a personal tour of
colored slums soon to check on re
ports there was a larger colored
population and at the same time less
colored housing than ever before in
the District.
She had been told, she said, that
extensive public building in colored
slum areas has cut living facilities
for colored people so much that as
many as 10 families are living in
some homes intended for one family.
Although she knows that plans
for additional housing projects are
underway, Mrs. Roosevelt added, she
believes these will not be ready until
spring. Thus the overcrowding will
continue throughout this winter, she
said.—“the worst period for sick
! ness."
i “These colored slums are danger
ous to the entire District." she con
cluded. because disease cannot be re
stricted to the area in which it
originates.
Turning to her domestic affairs,
the President's wife disclosed that
she is for the first time entertaining
within the White House the military
police and antiaircraft detachments
which have been guarding the ex
ecutive mansion since Pearl Harbor.
She Is showing movies of her South
Pacific trip tonight. Thursday night
and Saturday night.
“It will be the first time that many
of our guardians have ever been in
side the White House," Mrs. Roose
velt commented.
Air Forces Alone Now Exceed
All Troops Abroad in Last War
Arnold Says Enemy Is 'Reeling' Under
'Unceasing Pressure,' Foresees Victory
By the Associated Pres*.
The Army Air Forces, now
numbering more men than all
United States branches were
able to move into Europe in the
First World War. have destroyed
or damaged 13.500 enemy planes
since the Pearl Harbor attack
two years ago.
Swelled to 2.300.000 men. the air
arm has flown more than 225.000
individual plane flights, fired 41.
000.000 rounds of ammunition and
chewed up 2.000.000 000 gallons of
gasoline in that time,
Gen. Henry H Arnold disclosed
the magnitude of the air operations
in an article written for the Army
and Navy Journal issue dedicated
to the second anniversary of PeaW
Harbor and he summed up the ac
complishments with the assertion:
"Today in every theater of combat
the enemv is reeling from unceasing
pressure Target after target is being
demolished. The offensive will con
tinue to mount until the Axis has
neither the will nor the ability to
resist."
Foresees Heavy Fighting.
Navy Secretary Knox, contributing
to the same issue, forecast some of
the heaviest naval fighting of the
war next year.
‘ It is believed that 1944 will find
the United States naval service sail
ing into a number of ports of call
on the long road to total victory,"
Secretary Knox wrote,
i The year 1944, the secretary said,
'See KNOX. Page A-3.i
Mila Form of Flu
Sweeping District,
Physicians Report
Stress Ailment Is Not
Same Type as Fatal
'Pandemic' of 1918
By HAROLD B. ROGERS.
A mild form of influenza,
which has been increasing in
Washington and vicinity re
cently. now has reached what
appears to be epidemic stage,
according to officials of the Dis
trict Medical Society.
Neither doctors nor officers of the
District Health Department were
alarmed, however, over prospects of
the disease developing into the fatal
j "pandemic" of 1918 which swept
! the country with high death rates.
Dr. George C. Ruhland, District
health officer, conferred with some
of his aides at the District Building
shortly before noon to discuss the
j situation. He planned to issue a
| statement later in the dav with
recommendations to the public.
Pharmacies Swamped.
Pharmacies are being swamped
with orders for prescriptions, ac
cording to druggists. The only all
night drugstore in the city, at
Thomas Circle, did a land-office
business last night. Owing to the
shortage of pharmacists, it has not
been possible to open any other
stores, according to Augustus C.
Taylor, president of the Board of
Pharmacists, and Louis F. Bradley,
president of the District Pharma
ceutical Association.
The demand for prescriptions is
almost as great as that during the
1918 epidemic, said Dr. Taylor, who
also is an official of the People's
: Drug Stores.
In his capacity as president of
' the Board of Pharmacists. Dr. Tay
lor has asked the District Minimum
Wage Board to permit women phar
macists to work more than 48 hours
a week. But no decision has been
reached, he said. Men pharmacists
are working much longer than 48
hours a fc'eek. he said. The supply
of drugs in the city is adequate for
an emergency, he indicated.
Thousands of Cases.
Dr. William De Kleine. chairman
of the Public Health Committee of
the Medical Society, said today there
are thousands of influenza cases in
the city. He warned patients to
stay in bed during the fever which
accompanies the disease.
The trouble began about 10 days
(See INFLUENZA, Page A-16.) "
ABC Board Opposes
Rationing of Liquor;
Lacks Adequate Staff
Commissioners Planning
Public Hearings Soon
On Recommendations
The Commissioners and the
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board today issued a joint
statement in which they said
public hearings would be held
"at a very early date” on de
tailed recommendations made
by the liquor board to make
available more widely spread
distribution of liquor merchan
dise now available in the Dis
trict.
At the same time the ABC board
announced as a policy that it would
not recommend rationing of whisky,
since it was not prepared legally to
do so and lacked the means 01 en
forcement.
Once its recommendations have
been reduced to writing ov tne ABC
board, hearings will be ordered
Highlights of Recommendations.
Highlights of the recommenda
tions made by the board to the
Commissioners follow:
An increase in the number of per
mit inspectors to the board which
now has only three inspectois. and
detailing of "a limited number of
police officers- to check the books of
licensees on their revenues, and pos
sible violations of general laws and
regulations. The ABC board Was
instructed to confer with Budget
Officer Walter L. Fowler on the ap
propriation for new inspectors.
The regulations should be amend
ed so that retailers will be required
to display a certain percentage of
their whiskies on their shelves as
is now required in South Carolina I
and Tennessee. Tins does not mean.:
however, that a dealer has to sell
to anybody.
Tt is recommended that there be
(See LIQUOR, Page_A-16d
1
Shop Early
Christmas will soon be
here. Do your shopping the
early days of the season and
the first hours of the day
and the early days of the
week, thus saving yourself
inconvenience and probable
disappointment.
Housewives' Revolt
Seen by Mrs. Norton
In Backing Subsidies
Declares Big Farmers
Are Behind Opposition;
Forecasts Roosevelt Vefo
BULLETIN.
War Food Administrator
Marvin Jones asked Congress
today to decide now whether
Government food subsidies
are to be continued or abol
ished so that price control
agencies and the farmers
can map their 1944 programs
without delay. He objected
to a Democratic movement in
the Senate to postpone a
showdown on subsidies for 60
days.
—— •
Warning members of Con
gress they are "just beginning
to hear from the people back
home'" on the food subsidy ques
tion. Representative Mary T.
Norton. Democrat, of New Jer
sey today predicted it would be
come a real political issue in
months to come ' when prices
go up.”
Declaring American housewives
'are staging a revolt against a lobbv
ridden Congress,” Mrs. Norton, who
is chairman of the House Labor
Committee, protested the big farm
organizations—“who never did rep
resent. the little farmer”—had made
a " very selfish fight.”
They saw a chance to raise prices
on the necessities of life and are
taking advantage of it. she asserted.
Reporting she had received hun
dreds of telegrams and letters from
individual housewives, mothers' clubs
and settlement houses, as well as
national women's organizations rep
resenting 'millions” of organized
women, she predicted there later
would be a change of heart on the
part of Republicans who have voted
to kill food subsidies January 1.
Forecasts Presidential Veto.
Saying she would not be surprised
if the Senate followed the House on
t_hp subsidy issue, she predicted a
' See SUBSIDIES, Page A-16,)
Herman Lohr, English
Song Composer, Dies
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Dec. 6.—Herman Lohr.
72, English composer whose best
known songs were "Little Gray
Home in the West” and "Where My
Caravan Has Rested.” died todav at
Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Born at Plymouth, he was a pupil
at the Royal Academy *bf Music,
where he won the Charles Lucas
Medal.
Era of Peace Based
On Atlantic Charter
Mapped at Teheran
Complete Accord Reached
On Scope and Timing of
New Blows at Germany
(Texts o/ Declarations on Page A-2.)
By JOHN F. CHESTER and WILLIAM McGAFFIN.
Associated Press Staff Correspondents.
CAIRO, Dec. 6.—President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin have agreed completely on
“the scope and timing of operations” to smash the German
Army from three sides, an announcement signed by the
three statesmen in a four day meeting in Teheran, Iran,
and released here today disclosed.
The Allied leaders also charted a peace era in which all na
tions would be invited to join "a world family of democratic
nations" based on the reaffirmed principles of the Atlantic
Charter.
The history-making conference of the heads of the world's
most powerful military and political combine was held in the
Iranian capital from November 28 to December 1. attended also
by scores of top-flight military chieftains and diplomats from the
United States, Britain and Russia.
• The declarations made no mention of demanding the
“unconditional surrender” of Germany. Story on Page A-2.1
General Staffs Back in Cairo.
Heavily underscoring the urgency of the military phase, the
combined British and American general staffs subsequently re
turned to Cairo, scene of the November 22-26 meeting of Chinese
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with President Roosevelt and the
Prime Minister, and staged concentrated planning sessions from
last Friday through today.
Mr. Churchill joined in these and other sessions, leading to
the probability that other disclosures of paramount international
importance are still to come.
Axis Speculates
On Turks' Future
Role in War
Conference Reported
To Have Followed
Parley In Iran
By the AwMCUttd Pye««.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—Turkey*
future role in the European war
was the subject of isgjous AX*
speculation today after an as
sertion by a German news
agency yesterday that Turkish
President Ismet Inonu had con
ferred with President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill in
Cairo Saturday.
The conference, about which a
communique is expected Wednesday
or Thursday "after the return of the
Turkish statesman,” followed the
history-making Iran conference of
the chiefs of staff of Britain and
the United States with Russian
Premier Stalin, the Nazi news
agency Transocean said, quoting
Ankara dispatches.
See No Change in Policy.
The Germans said Inonu was ac
companied by Numan Menemen
cioglu, Turkish foreign minister, and
the general secretary of the Turkish
Foreign Ministry. 1116/ asserted also
that Emir Mansur, son of King Ibn
Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Imir
Fahad. nephew of the King, arrived
in Cairo Saturday, presumably •'to
take part in some Cairo conference."
The German news agency DNB
said no change in Turkish policv
was expected as a result of the re
puted conference, but the Nazi-con
frolled Vichy radio, significantly per
haps. quoted Franz von Papen. Nazi
Ambassador to Turkey, as saying on
his arrival at Istanbul from Berlin
that "Germany is anxious to con
tinue its friendly collaboration with
Turkey so that this country can be
saved the horrors of war."
A Turkish declaration of war
against the Axis, which would af
ford the Allies new air bases for
operations in the Black Sea. the
Balkans and the Mediterranean, has
been believed by some to be increas -
inglv possible since Menemencioglu
conferred with British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden after the Mos
cow conference.
Closer to Derision.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Ankara, written last Friday, said
that each day and each political
event in the United Nations' war
planning was bringing the Turkish
nation closer to a decision as to what
part she will play in the war.
Asserting that it could no longer
be denied that the Allies wanted
Turkey to participate in the war
the dispatch said both Allied na
tionals and Turks in Ankara were
agreed that Turkey was rapidly ap
proaching the point where she must
say definitely to the Allies that she
is in the war on their side or that
she plans to remain rigidly neutral
throughout.
Cairo dispatches, meanwhile, dis
_'See TURKEY. Page A-16.) '
Roosevelt and Stalin Toast
Churchill on 69th Birthday
3y the Associated Press.
TEHERAN, Iran, Nov. 30 (De
layed!.—President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stalin matched elo
quence tonight in a-demonstra
tion of mutual admiration as the
British Prime Minister, at an
enthusiastic birthday dinner he
gave himself, eased into his 70th
year amid the applause of his
two fellow-statesmen.
Premier Stalin, who set the key to
the evening’s atmosphere, breezed
into the British Legation talking
freely through an interpreter to the
assembled guests, rggpved his great,
coal and lifted a glass to friend
Churchill,
The dinner-jacketed Mr. Churchill,
an ubiquitous, ebullient host, shep
herded his guests into dinner in the
Victorian setting of the legation din
ing room. Thirty-four sat down
around the long mahogany table
under the stern gaze of Queen Vic
toria, who looked down from one
wall. Prom the other wall there,
looked down the sympathetic counte-!
nance of Edward VII. Mr. Roosevelt
sat on Mr. Churchill's right and Mr I
Stalin on Mr. Churchill's left.
Mr. Churchill's five-star guest list,'
besides Mr. Roosevelt, who was the1
Tsee DINNER, Page A-16.) 1
rf
President Roosevelt's where
abouts since the Teheran con
ferences was not disclosed how
ever.
Two Teheran declarations,
signed simply, ‘ Roosevelt. Stal
in. Churchill,” and dated De
cember 1, announced these
results:
War—'Our military staffs hav*
joined in our round table discus
sions and we have concerted our
plans for the destruction of the
German forces. We have reached
complete agreement as to the scope
and timing of operations which
|Wlll be undertaken from the east,
,'west and south.
Relentless, Increasing Attacks.
I ‘‘The common understanding which
i we have reached guarantees that
victory will be ours
"No power on earth can prevent
our destroying the German armies
by land, their U-boats by sea and
their war plants from the air. Our
attacks will be relentless and in
creasing."
Peace—“We are sure that our con
cord will make it an enduring peace.
We recognize fully the supreme re
sponsibility resting upon us and all
the United Nations to make a peace
which will command the good will
of the overwhelming masses of the
peoples of the world and banish
the scourage and terror of war for
many generations.
We shall seek the co-operation
and active participation of all na
tions. large and small, whose peo
ples in heart and mind are dedi
cated. as are our own peoples, to
the elimination of tyranny and slav
ery. oppression and intolerance. W«
will welcome them as thev mav
choose to come into a world family
of democratic nations."
The concluding paragraph of one
declaration devoted to the status
of Iran as an ally of the three na
tions apparently was the kev to the
envisaged "world family of demo
cratic nations "
I barter Principles Reaffirmed.
After expressing their respect for
Iran s independence and territorial
integrity, and promising economic
aid to that country which has fa
cilitated the flow of Allied supplies
to Russia, the three leaders said:
"They (the United States. Britain
and Russia' count upon the partici
pation of Iran together with all
other peace-loving nations in the
establishment of international peace,
security and prosperity after the
war in accordance with the princi
ples of the Atlantic Charter, to
which all four governments have
continued to subscribe."
The Atlantic Charter declaration
by President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill after their sea
rendezvous in August, 1940, set out
these general Allied principles and
postwar aims:
1. They seek no territorial or other
aggrandizement,
2. No territorial changes which
do not accord with the "freely ex
pressed wishes of the people con
cerned."
3. Respect for the right of all peo
ples to choose their own form of
government: restoration of "sov
ereign rights and self-government"
( See CONFERENCE, Page A-3.) ^
Stalin Praises
U. S. Production
As Victory Key
By Ihf Associated Press.
TEHERAN (Delayed >. — Premier
Stalin solemnly get to his feet one
night at a dinner attended bv Presi
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill.
He looked soberly about him at
the assembled military and diplo
matic leaders of the United States.
Great Britain and Russia and lifted
his glass to American war produc
tion.
"Without American production
the United Nations could never
have won the war." the Soviet leader
was reported to have declared.
The response to Premier Stalin’!
unexpected gesture was terrific.