CLOSE WATCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1943, Page 3

CLOSE WATCH

KEPT BY THE ALLIES

ON RAPIDLY-CHANGING WAR SITUATION.

TASK OF 1 KILLING BELIEF IN HITLER. .

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 8.

“Mr Churchill recognises as much as Marshal Stalin and President Roosevelt that now, as never before during the war, there is every need for quick decisions and swift action,” says the diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” “Consultations bctwqen all three Governments, therefore, have been mere or less continuous during the past fortnight, and they are about to reach the final important stage. “The rapidly changing situation in Europe, where Hitler is losing what was once a stranglehold, compels these ftesh deliberations. They are concerned with one single object—complete victory. “It is asserted in Whitehall that the Allies must be ready to seize the right opportunity in all places and at all times to hit Hitler hard, but that also they must be prepared for man}’ difficulties which Hitler and his henchmen will put in their way,” the correspondent continues.

“The words which were used to me by an authoritative person with long experience and sound judgment were: ‘Mussolini has gone, but Hitler is not finished. Don’t let the people imagine that Hitler’s end will come till he has wriggled for the very last time. One thing is clear from all the information from Germany: the German people have not lost faith in Hitler. They may doubt the Nazis and their set-up of Ministers and generals, but they still believe in Hitler and they do not doubt that he will find a way out for them. This belief in Hitler is something the Allies must kill before they can defeat Germany. There is a greater need than ever for real co-operation and the closest collaboration between the Allies.’

“These words,” the correspondent comments, “may be regarded as a summing up of the reaction in London to Hitler’s latest conferences with hisgenerals and Ministers and to the many reports from Germany about the conditions there.”