Washington, May 7.
An extraordinary 90-minute meeting of President Roosevelt's War Cabinet was held here yesterday, amid indications that grave events abroad had compelled the Administration to map broader and swifter action to Buttress the British war effort, The announced purpose of the conference was to act on President Roosevelt's order for greatly expanded production of heavy bombers to give the Democracies "absolute" supremacy of the air, What other matters were discussed was a.matter of conjecture, Conferees emerged from: the White House grim and uncommunicable. dence that " matters of momentous Nevertheless, there was every evi-nature had been canvassed, The "War Cabinet" included Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State; Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secreatry of the Treasury; Col, Henry L, Stimson, Secretary of War; Col, Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy; Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; Major-General H. H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps; Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics and Mr. Harry Hopkins, in charge of ce-ordinating ihe national defence programme and aid to Britain, Mr, Stephen Early, President Roosevelt's Secretary, disclosed that the conference also' would receive a report from Gen, Arnold on data gathered during his recent visit to England—United Press.
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