-3-, #6243, December 27, from London
 
Russian soldiers have shown themselves to be in
 
practice the best soldiers of capitalism.
 
     "Lord Beaverbrook's presence White House conver-
 
sations strengthens hypothesis that American inclina-
 
tion to suspend for some time application Lend-Lease
 
law is absolutely inacceptable to England, who took
 
rash decision to use enormous quantity war material
 
in Libya without throught of any economy, on the
 
assurance this war material would be replaced for
 
General Auchinlek quickly as possible by American
 
industry."
 
     STAMPA twenty-fourth declares that Churchill, the
 
vassal of President Roosevelt, is consulting his master
 
to determine with him whether it is preferable to
 
strip Atlantic and Mediterranean in order to attempt
 
resistance in Pacific or whether Anglo-Saxon powers
 
must resign themselves to defeat in Asia.
 
     POPOLO DI  ROMA twenty-fourth notes satisfaction 
 
expressed by British press and radio over prospects
 
that Washington conference will lead to unified
 
democratic command and adds "They are under the illu-
 
sion that such a command would be entrusted to London."
 
Apart from this question which doss not interest Axis,
 
the paper continues, conference has no other task than
 
that of drawing up balance sheet of disasters suffered
 
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