MOVING TO CLIMAX

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1942, Page 4

MOVING TO CLIMAX

SOVIET COUNTER-OFFENSIVE CHURCHILL & STALIN EXCHANGE MESSAGES. PRIME MINISTER ON FUTURE OUTLOOK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 1.0 p.m.) RUGBY. November 29. In his broadcast, Mr Churchill revealed that when he was leaving the Kremlin in August he promised to send M. Stalin a telegram when we had decisively defeated Rommel in Egypt. Stalin promised tp ; send him a telegram when the Russians made their counter-of-fensive. Both these messages had been sent and thankfully received. At the moment the immense battle which hal already yielded results of the first magnitude was moving forward to a climax and it was only one part of the Russian front, along which Russian armies were attacking at many points. The rigours of another Russian winter were closing round Hitler’s 180 divisions, many, of them reduced to little more than brigades by the slaughter and privations they had suffered. . Mr Churchill said he promised nothing for the future, he predicted nothing. He could not even guarantee that more successes were not on the way. Mr Churchill said there was nothing to justify the hope that the war would not be long or that bitter, bloody years did not lie ahead.