SOVIET & ALLIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4

SOVIET & ALLIES

4 ALLEGATIONS BY AMERICAN PAPERS. TALK OF SERIOUS DIFFERENCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 23. The newspaper “P.M." asks what has happened since M. Molotov, fourteen months ago, told cheering Russians that the Allies and the Soviet had reached perfect accord on a second front and on greater and faster supplies to Russia. The “Red Star” has tersely explained that a second front means operations from the west causing the Germans to withdraw from 50 to 60 divisions from the Russian front. Another factor souring Russian and Allied relations was the creation of Amgot (the Allied Military Government in Sicily) without consulting Moscow. Vexation has also been created by London and Washington's criticisms of Moscow sponsorship of the Free German Committee in Russia. The Soviet was also irked by the sympathetic consideration the Allies gave General Franco’s request for aviation spirit. Finally, Russia was displeased that the United States had not accepted the dissolution of the Comintern at its face value. "P.M.” urges a realignment of Allied political technique on an unmistakable and collective basis, plus the opening of a second front as quickly as is humanly possible.

The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says American officials discount rumours that M. Litvinov’s recall presages a separate Russian-Ger-man peace, but that M. Stalin’s dissatisfaction at the Allies’ failure to invade Europe is plain.