FAITH IN VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1943, Page 4

FAITH IN VICTORY

AND IN CLOSE POST-WAR COLLABORATION MESSAGE FROM THE KING. TO PRESIDENT OF SOVIET UNION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY. May 27. The King has sent the following reply to a message from M. Kalinin, chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Council of Soviet Russia: —“I thank you for your warm message and greetings on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Treaty of Alliance between our two countries, and I am deeply grateful to learn that the feelings aroused among the Soviet people by the victory of the British and Allied forces in North Africa correspond to the feelings with which my peoples have received news of the great feats of the Soviet armies during the past year. I share your conviction that, whatever difficulties may lie ahead, Britain, the U.S.S.R. and the United States, together with the other United Nations, will achieve victory by our united exertions, and that the close collaboration in the post-war world, to which we have pledged ourselves in our treaty, will be of benefit not only to our own peoples, but to all freedomloving nations.”