WIDELY WELCOMED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 6

WIDELY WELCOMED

CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT DECLARATION

IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC QUESTIONS.

OVERLOOKED IN FORMER

SETTLEMENTS.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 15

The eight-point declaration by Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt is still receiving the greatest

attention, and it is being progressively realised here that the two statesmen have issued a realistic programme for the co-operative development of the free peoples of the world. Emphasis is laid on the importance which the declaration gives to economic questions, which usually have been side-tracked in former post-war settlements in favour of political considerations.

The question of raw materials is recognised as of the first importance, and is applauded, as is also the insistence on an improvement of labour conditions. In Dutch Government circles in London, Mr Attlee’s announcement was greeted with considerable satisfaction. It has long been felt in these circles that some constructive plan should be laid before the world, to which all nations and individuals of goodwill could give their sincere support. Such a plan has now been drawn up in broad outline, and two leading statesmen of Britain and the United States have announced their countries’ intention to act upon it. It will find wide endorsement everywhere, except with those elements in the world which still stand ■for aggression and the law of sheer force. FIRST ATTEMPT TO BRING REASON INTO STRUGGLE. ACCORDING TO MR MAXTON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, August 15. Mr James Maxton, the well-known Independent Labour member of Parliament, speaking in the country today, said the meeting of Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt was the first time since the outbreak of the war that there had been any attempt to bring the voice of reason into the struggle.