PACT WITH RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 4

PACT WITH RUSSIA

IMPORTANCE EMPHASISED BY MR NASH NEW ZEALAND CABINET CONSULTED. WHOLEHEARTED APPROVAL GIVEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The joint declaration embodied in the agreement between Britain and Russia is of supreme importance and its practical results must profoundly influence the whole course of the war,” said the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, yesterday. “The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, attended the meetings of the British War Cabinet at which the matter was discussed and agreed upon, and the New Zealand Government was kept fully informed throughout all stages of negotiations. Here in New Zealand members of both the War Cabinet and the Government Cabinet wholeheartedly endorsed the terms of the declaration. “There is no need to stress the value of this basis of understanding. Its benefits are equally obvious to our friends as well as to our enemies. “On the east and on the west Germany is now facing two resolute peoples pledged to assist each other and both equally determined that there shall be no surrender and no separate peace. They are both agreed to keep on fighting together whatever the and however long the war. “It would be absurd if at this stage there could be any obstacle to making common cause against the Nazi aggressor. The secret of Hitler’s success has undoubtedly been the way in which he has managed to isolate his victims and thus to strike them down singly and achieve a series of victories which would probably never have been possible in the face of a collective peace system. “Even at this late hour it is not too much to hope that other nations whose independence and existence is threatented by Germany will band together as the British Commonwealth and Russia have done, pledged to assist each other in all circumstances and to keep on fighting till victory is won.”