ATTITUDE TO RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 6

ATTITUDE TO RUSSIA

A SELF-EVIDENT PROPOSITION. “There is general disapproval in Britain both of the creed and of the methods of Bolshevism, but events must determine international and just as prior to the last great war and in its course we found ourselves as a country allied to Russia under Tsardom, although there was then profound disapproval of Tsardom in many quarters here, so now events must determine our relationship,” said Viscount Samuel, speaking in the House of Lords. “It is almost a proposition as certain as Euclid that States which are enemies of the same State are Allies of one another. Unquestionably the right course must be for our Government to give to Russia the fullest military and other support which the geographical conditions allow. I cannot conceive that there will be any British citizen who would say that his antipathy to Bolshevism was so great that he would rather see Germany win, now than Russia. The whole future on human freedom and human welfare depends at this moment on the defeat of Hitler, and nothing matters except that. Not for a moment must we consider the danger averted. There is only • a change in the order of the German onslaughts. The order was intended to be France, Britain, Russia; now, owing to the defeat of the invasion plans last autumn by the Royal Air Force, probably the order has merely been inverted and is now France, Russia, Britain.”