REAL TEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3

REAL TEST

APPROACHED AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE NEED OF AGREEMENT ON DETAILS. TECHNICIANS CALLED IN. LONDON, October 25. The tliree-Power conference in Moscow has been proceeding for nearly a week. On Saturday night the technical experts came in for the first time to join Mr Eden, Mr Hull, and M. Molotov in the talks. The session met soon after dinner and did not break up again till the early hours of Sunday morning. The Moscow correspondent of the “News Chronicle” says the conferences have undoubtedly gone very well, but he emphasises that it is always more difficult to agree on technical details, which are now being discussed. The real test of goodwill and readiness to meet the other man’s point of view has now come. There is every reason, however, for cautious optimism. Last night members of the delegations went to the Bolshoi Theatre for a performance of the “Swan Lake” ballet. When Mr Eden entered his box,’ the whole gathering stood up and cheered him to the echo. Mr Hull was unable to be present. AIR OFFENSIVE EVIDENCE OF DESTRUCTIVE EFFECT. PLACED BEFORE RUSSIANS. NEW YORK, October 24. The American mission took to Moscow extensive photographic and other evidence of the destructiveness of the American air attacks to demonstrate that while the second front has not been opened the British and American air war on Germany is on such a.scale that it is bound to have a serious effect on Germany’s fighting power all along the eastern front, says the “Her-ald-Tribune.” The invasion season has now passed, but in the coming six months the British and American bombers, operating from the United Kingdom and Italy, will try to destroy the Luftwaffe, cripple the German war industries, and undermine the German morale.