NO RED TAPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 5

NO RED TAPE

AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE COMMITTEES HARD AT WORK. FULL SUPPORT PROMISED BY UNITED STATES. I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 29. The British, Russian, and United States delegations to the ThreePower Conference in Moscow began to discuss supply problems this afternoon. . M. Molotov, the Foreign Commissar, presided. The first session was brief. The conference adjourned till October 3, when a plenary meeting will consider the reports of six committees which were appointed today. Committees are to deal with army, naval and air, transport, war material and medical supplies. The British and American- • delegations jointly issued the following communique: “Red tape and long speeches have been entirely absent. The six committees began their sessions immediately with orders to work day and night and fully report the Russian needs by the morning of October 3.” Marshal Voroshilov, who is in charge of the Leningrad defences and is one of the delegates, left the battlefront to take part in the proceedings. Lord Beaverbrook, in a brief speech, said Britain was in partnership with Russia, and he was there to show them that she. was ready to make every sacrifice to help conquer the common enemy. M. Molotov, he said, had stated that time was precious, and he was right. Mr Averell Harriman, also speaking at the conference, said that the dispatch of the United States mission was historic because America was a non-belligerent. “But we have come with your ally, Britain, with the same object—to give you every assistance against the yiolent, unwarranted attack by Hitler and his cohorts," he continued. “Your success means everything to the people of America. I have been instructed to pledge you the 'fullest possible support today, tomorrow and as long as the struggle lasts till victory is won.” Reuter’s Moscow correspondent states that while the conference will discuss the question of the supply of raw materials and direct military help, as seen already in the R.A.F. wing in. Russia, short-term and long-term supplies will also be discussed, as well as the all-important question of transport and transport routes for these supplies. There was great activity at the British Embassy in the morning before the conference began. Last night M. Stalin talked for three hours with Lord Beaverbrook and Mr Harriman in the presence of MM. Molotov and Litvinov.