FULLEST ACCORD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 5

FULLEST ACCORD

BRITISH AND RUSSIAN

POLICY CAMPAIGN IN IRAN. MOST EFFECTIVE CO-OPERATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 11. “The Times” says: “A particularly, welcome feature of the Iranian campaign has been the close co-operation maintained between the British and Russian armies and the British and Russian political authorities. The advance on both sides was perfectly timed and the junction effected with complete precision. There has been the fullest accord between British and Russian policy both as to the immediate measures taken and to the undertakings for the future. “The enemy propagandists who professed to see in the Anglo-Russian alliance a nefarious scheme for subjugating the world to the supposed Bolshevist menace will find nothing to support them in exemplary restraint and scrupulous regard for the interests of the Iranian people which has. been exhibited by the Soviet authorities in Northern Iran. “It is good news that General Wavell has just visited the country and been in touch with the Soviet army commanders. The operations in Iran and the direct and cordial relations established between the British and Russian forces should serve as a happy precedent for increased confidence and more intimate collaboration in other fields. A report from Simla states that Britain and Russia have been granted the control of all vital means of communication. including the trans-Iranian lai - way, under the agreement with Iran.