ALLIED STATEMENT URGED

Evening Star, Issue 24324, 13 October 1942, Page 3

ALLIED STATEMENT URGED

REMOVAL OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS LONDON, October 11. After another week in which the newspapers and radios in Russia and also Russian news sheets abroad have continued to give prominence to the subject of a second front, Reuter’s correspondent at Moscow says it has become clear that the Russians are unable to understand the considerations determining the Anglo-American decisions on strategy, especially regarding the opening of a second front, and a statement from an authoritative British or American leader appears to be most desirable in order to prevent what looks like a further development of a fundamental misunderstanding. The newspaper ‘ Pravda,’ after a comparison of British and American shipbuilding figures, with the announced tonnage losses, declared; “ German propaganda alleging that a lack of tonnage is curbing the Allies’ expansion of war operations is worth nothing. On the contrary, the facts confirm the assertions of the British and American Press that Allied losses are much exceeded by the ceaseless string of new merchantmen.”