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Ffiluyjjs in YOUR Davies Sees Stalin Japanese Labeled And Delivers Letter 'Our Particular Foe' SPORT CENTER From Roosevelt By James Roosevelt WAIST A Long, Friendly Talk Troops' Eagerness for Fray In Kremlin Gives No WiFi Win Pacific War, Hint of Reaction ! President's Son Says By the Associated Press. My th« Associated Prats. SUMMER SUIT MOSCOW, May' 21.—Special Envoy BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., May 31. E. Davies conferred with Joseph —Terming the Japanese "our par- Premier Stalin at the Kremlin last ticular foe,” Lt. Col. James Roose- night and delivered President Roose- velt has warned that only a hard ! fight and complete victory, with velt's secret message—a letter that forces now being assembled, can some quarters con- thought might frustrate Nipponese dreams of em- THAT WILL SEE tain an invitation to a personal pire. The meeting with other Allied leaders. Marine Corps officer, recup- at his home Mr. Davies was presented to the erating here from an illness Russian political and military chief contracted six weeks ago, by Admiral William H. Standley, the recently returned from the Orient. He declared in an interview IN YOUR American Ambassador, and was ac- yes- companied to the meeting by Vya- terday : "Our ffilUyjjS cheslav Molotov, Soviet commissar problem Is still one of great distances in for foreign afTairs, with whom he the Pacific a^ea, but LEISURE previously had conferred at length. we are steadily gaining strength for the battles of the Tass, official Soviet news agency, major future. IKTH^ on the other has told of the meeting in a brief state- Japan, hand, reached the where she con- ment early but no de- point is TIME . today, gave ^PlP^ tails of solidating her gains and building up what had occurred. It was reported, however, that Mr. a great defensive structure and re- I serve of material. Davies and Premier Stalin had a long and extremely friendly talk Japan’s Probable Strategy. and that the Soviet Premier shook "Japan might be willing to rest | hands with the President’s repre- on her accumulation of resources sentative enthusiastically an<f~ener- and not attempt to extend her con- getlcally. quests any further. In that case No Indication of Reaction. her strategic policy would be to wait, until With the briefcase containing we had worn ourselves out! with battles in President Roosevelt's message safely Europe and try to a favorable tucked under his arm, Mr. Davies negotiate peace. “Should such a went to the Kremlin directly from a peace be granted reception at the United States Em- her, by any chance, her ambitions bassy given him by Admiral Stand- to enlarge her place as a world power ley. would again doubtless inspire her to There was no immediate indica- gain further territorial conquests. tion of Stalin's reaction to the We would then face the problem President's message. anew of defeating her under far (President Roosevelt, on an- more difficult conditions. nouncing Mr. Davies’ mission "As much as any other, if not A. 6. SPALDING AND WRIGHT A DITSGN May 7. said only he and his more, this island nation with its typist knew the nature of the enormous aspirations for a world j dominion letter, but that Mr. Davies pre- is our particular foe. On sumably would become acquainted the Pacific coast this is well under- TENNIS stood. It is not RACKET OUTFITS so with its contents after delivery always soundly comprehended in other (Includes Racket, Full-Length Racket Cover A Press) and then discuss it with Premier parts of the Stalin.) country.” RENO.—MRS. ASTOR DIVORCED—After an eight-minute Choose from Top-Flite, Davis Cup, The Tass statement said Mr. pri- Men Irked by Delays. ^ who reached vate hearing on her complaint, Mrs. Ellen Tuck French Astor Men in the Austral, Mercer Beasley and Gold ; Davies, Kuibyshev by Orient, Col. Roosevelt ^ went to won a divorce from John reported, want a Star j plane Tuesday, immediately yesterday Jacob Astor. III. She is full-fledged offen- Rackets and get a full-length i sive Stalingrad and there addressed Red shown here as she left the Washoe operation, and are de County Courthouse by the fretting luxe racket cover and a tennis Army troops and placed flowers on under necessarily tedious | back door. She was Dore owner of the delays. common of that accompanied by Wood, This racket press ... all for $8.95. the grave city's eagerness for the fray, "plus dude ranch where she a six-week residential She | fallen heroes "on behalf of President spent period. needful equipment and supplies that are Roosevelt and the people of the received a $1,000,000 property settlement and custody of a son, on the way,” will win the war in 1 Rationed! United States of America.” Billy, aged 7. .—A. P. Wirephoto. the Pacific, he asserted. None Men’s Tennis The Davies Statement Displayed. colonel, undergoing treatment i Men’s & Women’s Sanforized Racket "The people who defended this at Long Beach, Calif., Naval Hos- * pital. said he $2.50 Tennis Tennis Shorts city were able to check the Ger- 52 Leaders Denounce is convinced his ail- Restrinfinf ment is not mans,” Mr. Davies said in his Stalin- Italian malaria but a stomach Shoes Expert disorder. *1.65 grad address. "The peoples of the *3.50 p Soviet Union, the United States of 'Mission to Moscow' Film Cotton gabardine ! Of OW/ Denies *1.75 America and Great Britain, under By the Associated Press. in navy, white and All work done in the guidance of their leaders will be I NEW 21.—A state- 300 Women AH sizes in the YORK, May Washington tan with contrast- our own Tennis able to defeat Hitler. to the V/ill Glory ment 52 American edu- King Quit group. Wear them ing trim. (Less our own signed by Shop by Soviet soldiers!” By the Associated Press. as for tennis and all than 1% residual trained ex- cators, authors and trade Qualify USO Hostesses factory Mr. Davies, who reached Moscow historians, NEW YORK, May 21—Carlo A. * sports. shrinkage.) A class of 300 perts. yesterday for his first visit since he union leaders was issued yesterday Prato, formerly the Office of War Washington women left five years ago after completing denouncing the film version of “Mis- Information’s top-ranking expert on received certificates as junior and his period as Ambassador, was given Italian last sion to Moscow” as the “first full- affairs, night declared senior USO hostesses at exercises considerable space in the Soviet in his “all that, opinion, the rumors last in dress example of the kind of propa- night the YMCA auditorium, press. hinting at a new government in A statement that he to news- movie confined 1736 G street N.W. Guest gave ganda hitherto to the Italy are deliberate Axis propa- speaker was Miss Eleanor papers praising Russia's “wonderful totalitarian countries.” ganda.” Wilson, woman’s resistance to the Huns” ! activities director of the w'as prom- Speaking on the “March of Time” Army and The Warner Bros. film, based on Navy YMCA and inently displayed. program over the NBC Mr. organizer of the the book by Joseph E. Davies, former network, Girls’ “My country entered this World Prato said the Service Organization. Ambassador to Russia, was criticized “King of Italy told War the The GSO has a late," statement said. “But Archbishop in Rome last membership of by the group on three counts: That Spellman 85,000 I can assure you that in respect to that he would young women between 18 and It “falsifies and even distorts February abdicate if of human reserves history 30 who serve as social for and things went wrong in partners [.preparation the very book on which it was based; Africa. servicemen at mechanized might, we at present are • USO Clubs. Another j • • the Stalin went but the glorifies dictatorship “Well, things wrong, course for USO hostesses will reaching high standards of our * open j and its methods, * * and has the King is still on his throne. i possibilities.” next month under Mrs. Janet M. most serious implications for Amer- “Fascist Rome has made : Germany’s defeat, Mr. Davies add- good use King, class chairman, and Miss Jo ! ican democracy.” in the past of our to be- ed, “is as evident as the fact that tendency Webb, chairman of senior hostesses. Among those listed as signers were little the Italians as half-hearted -------- i after night comes day.” j Eugene Lyons, editor of the Ameri- and ready to overthrow Mussolini at ! The Axis is watching you; Wilson Lawson Little Churchill Talk Summarised. keep Patty Berg can Mercury and a former Moscow the first opportunity. Now the ’em sighing while you keep buying— ! The Russian people first learned correspondent; John Haynes Holmes. same trick is being tried again. War savings stamps. PRECISION IRONS of the Stalin-Davies meeting over Edmund Wiison, author; Harry D. “There will be no so-called pro- AUTOGRAPH IRONS 1 SET OF 5 CLUBS the home radio at 6:05 am. today. Gideonse, president of Brooklyn Col- Allied government under Crown SET OF 6 CLUBS | A summary of Prime Minister lege; A. Philip Randolph, president Prince Umberto, nor will there be i Churchill’s statement to Congress of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car a regime headed by Dino Grandi j *19.95 also was given. Porters, AFL; Norman Thomas. Max or other political shysters. These Precision step-down steel shafts, The meeting with Premier Stalin Danish, editor of Justice, official would all be phoney governments. j leather reminder grips. Designed *24.95 presumably was arranged yesterday organ of the .International Ladies cynically created by Mussolini to for the sole purpose of afternoon when Mr.
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