FRANK APPROACH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1943, Page 3

FRANK APPROACH

NEEDED TO INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS COMMENT ON MR EDEN’S MISSION. OPENING WAY TO AGREEMENT ON POLICY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 14. Commenting on the implications of Mr Eden’s visit to the United States, “The Times” in an editorial says: “Apparently sometimes there has been diffidence in advancing the British viewpoint when it may not tally with the American, and also a tendency always to await American initiative in the hope that it would be one which Britain could follow. “This does not serve either the alliance or Hhe common cause, because each nation engaged in the joint struggle has the right to know the other’s whole mind without polite glosses and diplomatic reservations.” The newspaper adds: “The Washington talks are intended to prepare for meetings in which all the United Nations will participate. Mr Eden did not intend to formulate proposals, but to obtain a clearer understanding of the American views and give the Americans a clearer picture of the British opinion on the lines along which the present and future policy should develop.” CORDIAL WELCOME EXTENDED TO MR EDEN. GOOD BEGINNING MADE IN DISCUSSIONS. • (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, March 15. Reports from Washington leave no doubt as to the cordiality of Mr Anthony Eden’s welcome in the United States. His conference with President Roosevelt on Saturday night, which will be one of several, took place in the friendliest and most encouraging atmosphere. Yesterday Mr Eden saw Mr Stimson and Colonel Knox. Today Mr Cordell Hull and Mr Eden began, a series of conferences, aimed at attaining agreement between the United States and Britain in all international policies , during the post-war period, says a Washington message. Lord Halifax and high officials of the State Department, will attend today’s conference. Mr Hull, at the conclusion of an hour’s talk with Mr Eden, made several statements regarding the discussions and told a Press conference, at which Mr Eden and Lord Halifax were present, that the conversations with Mr Eden had begun auspiciously. Mr Eden himself remarked that he had begun to feel a better result in the initial talks. Mr Hull declared that the discussions could well be extended to the Soviet Union, China and other members of the United Nations who might wish to exchange views and opinions. There had been informal discussions on international currency in Washington as well as in London. Mr Hull also said the war would last longer than most people believed and expressed himself as in entire agreement with a similar statement made by Mr Eden on Saturday. Discussing the visit, the London “Times” makes a plea for solidarity among the United Nations as a whole, saying one pressing need is for an improvement in the machinery of consultation among the United Nations upon present and future tasks. Russia and China in particular have claims to a constant voice in the framing of policy which cannot be ignored if the partnership is to be full and equal. POST=WAR ORDER OPINIONS OF GENERAL SMUTS. ! POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ESSENTIALS. JOHANNESBURG, March 14. The South African Prime Minister, General Smuts, replying to questions on the post-war world put to him by the British United Press, said that first, he believed that collaboration between the British Commonwealth. America and the Allies would be the best guarantee for world peace. The Atlantic Charter and other instruments now taking shape all pointed toward collaboration as opposed to the oldtime competition in economic foreign policies. “Second,” he said, “provided the Axis nations are disarmed and precautions against future rearmament taken, I believe they should share fairly with the Allies in the supply of their economic and financial requirements and their economic construction. Their exclusion from world markets would retard world recovery and lead to fresh troubles. The Atlantic Charter speaks clearly of this. “Thridly, world peace can be permanently secured only on the basis of world organisation more effective than the League of Nations, probably providing for continental and other zonal arrangements. “Fourthly, the application of the Atlantic Charter to India, Africa and elsewhere must be carefully worked out on the basis of the racial, economic and cultural situation in complex varied societies.” General Smuts added that the South African armoured divisions will be employed anywhere on the second front 1 or wherever their services will be most advantageous, regard being paid to the importance of Africa in Allied strategy and the possibility of new fronts in its neighbourhood.