ALLIED RELATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 5

ALLIED RELATIONS

RUSSIA & DOMINIONS CRITICISED BY CHICAGO PAPER. CO-OPERATION IN WAR AND PEACE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, March 31. “If we must, we can settle the peace problems after the war. Meanwhile, lots of things are necessary, lack of which is delaying if not preventing victory,” says the Chicago “Tribune” in an editorial. “One of the immediate problems concerns Russia. The United States is furnishing Russia with enormous quantities of supplies, thereby depriving our own soldiers of the weapons they are clamouring for and sending food which is taken from the mouths of our own people. We have the right to ask the Russians to end the friendly relations with Japan. At present the Russians are furnishing Japan with food from Soviet fisheries and priceless Alaska weather information. We should demand this assistance.

“There is no such ground for complaint against Britain. Their co-opera-tion is satisfactory to a very significant point; but difficult to explain is the failure of the British Dominions to pull their full share of the load. Australia, Canada and South Africa have not enacted conscription imposing sacrifices as heavy as those in Britain and America. South Africans will not fight outside Africa. Canadians are not drafted for overseas. Australians permit the use of conscript’s in only a limited area.

“American boys are fighting the Japanese 6000 miles from their homes, while Australia continues to impose restrictions. Whatever the excuse for it, and it never was a good one, is removed now that the last Australian divisions are home from Africa. If our allies will not equal our efforts during the war, what kind of co-oper-ation can we reasonably expect from them in peace.”