MOST PLEASED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1943, Page 3

MOST PLEASED

WITH TONE OF MOSCOW TALKS BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY FRANK & CANDID DISCUSSIONS. FUTURE OF SMALL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, October 22. Marshal Stalin received the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden, last night. The Deputy-Premier, M. Molotov, and the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, were present. The Moscow conference has now settled down with afternoon sessions attended by the three Foreign Ministers and such experts as the subjects under discussion require. Mr Eden and Mr Cordell Hull meet their respective staffs in the mornings and review the subjects to be discussed in the afternoons. Following upon Wednesday's discussion, in which military experts participated, Mr Eden expressed himself most pleased with the tone of the talks. The British delegate said the talks were very frank and candid. The opinion is held generally that the conference will consider the future of European countries such as Greece , and Yugoslavia, each presenting special problems*. Both Britain and the Soviet have already made contact with the People’s Liberation movement in Yugoslavia, and British officers are attached to General .Mikhailovitch’s forces In the United States today a strong' plea for collaboration between Britain, America, Russia and the other United Nations was made by the Soviet Ambassador, M. Gromyko, in a broadcast speech. It is regarded as particularly timely, says a message from New York, because of the current Moscow conferences. M. Gromyko said: “In the present struggle against the common enemy the foundations of still closer and more fruitful collaboration between our countries gre being laid.” He added that the war had turned in our favour, and the Germans had lost hope of victory. The Soviet people were’confident of the possibility of a speedy victory. M. Gromyko warned that Germany was stubbornly- attempting to postpone the defeat by trying to introduce dissension in the ranks of the Allies.