MOMENTOUS ISSUES FOR WORLD

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 5

MOMENTOUS ISSUES FOR WORLD

Conference In Moscow

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, October 11. J. L. Garvin, commenting in the “Sunday Express” on the three-Power debates wliich are expected to start in Moscow before the end of this week, says that they are “comparable in their political importance with signal military events. No more momentous discussion has been held in this war or in any epoch.” He assumes that the preparatory stage now impending will be n conference at the Kremlin between Mr. Eden, Mr. Cordell Hull, and M. Molotov on war aims and principles of the peace. “We may take it as certain.” he says, “that some penetrating questions, both of action and principle, will have to be left over till Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill meet Premier Stalin face to face. That meeting will either make assurance doubly .sure for the common cause of' the United Nations or will be a razor edge of divided destinies. “The opening of the discussions in Moscow cannot be as smooth as eteam. For some months the tone of the Soviet Pre,ss on every question of difference has often been rough and rasping. There is as much misunderstanding of Western motives by Russia as of Russian feeling by the West. There will have to be frank and even drastic speaking on both sides, without irritation on either side. “In that process this country, through Mr. Eden, will have to take its .part, but the supreme business of British policy, is to work in every way for constructive conciliation. We have to examine every specific question on its practical merits and in the harder light of Russian realism as well ns in the general glow of Atlantic idealism. Some balance between those two will have to be struck. That and nothing else is the crux.” Mr. Garvin adds that the Russians are still sore that the second front (which is now absolutely assured, on a massive sieale) has not come in rime to bring about, the military destruction ot ITitlerism this year.