Mr. Churchill Reports Progress
Accompanying President Roosevelt at the President's regular Press conference on Tuesday, Mr. Churchill told the assembled journalists everything that was possible in the circumstances. In regard to the order of priorities on the Asiatic and the European fronts, he said that the two wars would now be waged with equal force—they would be concurrent, not consecutive. Replying to pointed questions about the future of Italy, the Premier observed that the Allied plan was to wage war " to the un- conditional surrender of all who have molested us," and such a remark obviously covers Italy as well as Germany and Japan. But in another statement specifically relating to Italy he pointed out
that the Allies might be aided by a change of heart on her part or a weakening of morale. It has been asked in some quarters whether Italy has any inducement to throw in her hand upon terms of unconditional surrender. The Prime Minister's reply is that the Italians would be well advised to throw themselves on the justice of those they had attacked—the Allies do not mean to deprive Italians of their native soil, or commit any " inhuman acts." In fact, on terms of unconditional surrender the Italians would stand to gain more from the Allies than by reliance on Germany or continued submission to the incompetent tyranny of the Fascists. Mr. Churchill's statement that " while the movement of supplies had been on an increasing scale the killings of U-boats had never been better " has been largely confirmed by official statements in Berlin.
