UNITED EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1941, Page 5

UNITED EFFORT

BRITAIN & THE SOVIET COMMENT ON MR EDEN’S VISIT. FULL AGREEMENT ON CONDUCT OF WAR. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 29. The announcement of the Foreign Secretary’s visit to M. Stalin in Moscow has been warmly welcomed here not only as giving further proof of the closer collaboration with the Soviet, but also as a fresh step in the uniting of the Allied war efforts, whose progress has been so greatly advanced by the meeting between ■ President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill in Washington. “The Times” says: “Barely two months ago, in his speech on the anniversary of the Russian revolution, M. Stalin spoke of coalition ‘of the United States and Britain and the Soviet Union’ as ‘a reality which is growing and will continue to grow for the benefit of the common cause of liberation.’ Since then the process of its- growth has made enormous strides. “M. Stalin and Mr Eden record that the fullest measure of agreement was reached between them on the conduct of the war, and that the conference has constituted an important ‘step forward toward closer collaboration.’ This step must be seen in the larger perspective of a grand alliance in which both Britain and Russia are associated with the United States and with the growing number of other countries of every continent. The immediate purpose which Mr Churchill at this moment’is pursuing in Washington is to bring together in one common design, strategy and policy these three great Powers, the pillars and cornerstones of the alliance.”