OF LEADERS AT SEA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1941, Page 6

OF LEADERS AT SEA

BUT NO REFERENCE MADE IN BRITISH PRESS. SIGNIFICANCE OF DECISIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) ((Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON. August 14. All Britain has been waiting for Mr A.ttlec’o statement, an extraordinary aspect of which is that, though many persons in the know have been talking for the last fortnight about the Churchill-Roosevelt meeting, no word of this appeared in the British Press. 'A Washington message says that the first reaction of the American people to the Churchill-Roosevelt statement is one of 'genuine satisfaction. It is felt that the two great leaders of democracy have offered pledges, dependent on the ultimate defeat of Nazi tyranny, which come up to true democratic ideals. Looking at the matter purely from their own viewpoint, Americans feel that the President has gone as far as he can, without seeking Congressional consent, in agreement with Mr Churchill to see the war brought to a successful conclusion. The agreement is regarded as a rough outline of the peace terms which America is prepared to support, in collaboration with Britain.

It is not known when Mr Roosevelt will return to Washington. It is understood he is still at sea. somewhere off New England.

WARMLY ENDORSED

CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT DECLARATION.

NEW ZEALAND PREMIER'S OBSERVATIONS.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, August 14

New Zealand has been foremost in endorsing the Churchill-Roosevelt declaration. The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, stated: "The. declaration is a striking and most important document and will give great satisfaction to democratic and progressive peoples everywhere. It embodies in brief form the principles for which the .British Commonwealth and all our allies are fighting and to which the United' States is contributing so notably. In every aspect it is worthy of the two great democracies .which today stand on common ground in the cause of the preservation and furtherance of freedom for all men in all lands.”