The Galveston Daily News
GALVESTON, TEXAS. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1942.
CHURCHILL AGAIN RETURNS TO AMERICA
British Withdraw In
Libyan Desert Fight
Allied Army and
Tobruk Linked by
Only One Road
Only One Road
Cairo, .lune 18. AP Split by
25 days of hammering by pow-
erful axis armored forces, the
British Eighth Army withdrew
to new positions today, one sec-
tion taking up fortified place
near the Egyptian horde
while the other fell back into
the defensive perimeter of To
obruk to defend that Libyan
coastal stronghold against vio-
lent siege.
Only the shore road remained a
tenuous link between Tobruk and
the British main body.
Early hints of Possible Second Front
Prime Minister and
Pres. Roosevelt Will
Chart Further Plans
for Crushing Axis
Washington, June 18. (AP)
Winston .Churchill, Britain's
wartime prime minister, has
crossed the Atlantic once more
to sit down with Pres. Roosevelt
and chart plans for crushing
the axis— perhaps by opening
a second fighting front in
Europe
Conjectures Develop.
Conjectures about a second front
developed rapidly. Inasmuch as
Russia's foreign commissar, V. M
Molotov, had just returned to Mos-
cow from highly important parleys
in London and Washington which
brought about a complete under-
standing among the United Slates,
England and Russia on the "urgent
tasks of creating n second front
in Europe In' 1942."
Russia and England, .bearing the brunt
of actual combat operations
in Europe and. Africa, have been
feeling again the 'weight of nazi
arms as the armored legions of
Hitler have been hurled into the
attacks in the Tobruk, Crimean". and
Kharkov areas and not, without
some successes. A- Second front:
would relieve the pressure of this
three-pronged assault.
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