ALLIED RIFT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1942, Page 2

ALLIED RIFT

ALLEGED BY NEW YORK COLUMNIST. DIFFERENCES OVER SECOND FRONT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 21. William Philip Simms, ’’ Columnist for the Scripps-Howard newspapers,/ says it is clear that unless the secondfront differences involving Moscow. London, and Washington can be composed without undue delay they may easily develop into a dangerous rift. “That Mr Churchill failed to reach a complete understanding with M. Stalin is admitted,'’ he writes. “Something else will therefore have to be tried—perhaps a Stalin-Roosevelt meeting in Washington. In any event close students of Soviet history say that things should not be allowed to drift. “Mr Willkie is said to have been coolly received in Moscow. The cleavage is not due merely to the lack of military unanimity: Moscow is charging that politics are interfering with a second front.” Mr Roosevelt’s envoy. Mr Wendell Wilkie, conferred with M. Molotov, the Soviet’ Foreign .Minister’ and VicePremier in Moscow this afternoon, earlier Mr Willkie had a long talk with Sir Archibald Clark-Keer, the British Ambassador.