MILITARY DECISIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1943, Page 4

MILITARY DECISIONS

REACHED AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE SATISFACTORY TO RUSSIANS GERMAN CURIOSITY GOING UNSATISFIED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 2. The best news so far is that important decisions were made pointing towards an Anglo-American second front,” says the “Izvestia,” commenting on the Moscow conference. The article indicated that the military decisions reached satisfied the Russians. The Chinese Foreign Minister (Mr T. V. Soong) said China enthusiastically welcomed the Moscow joint declaration and added: Messrs Eden, Hull and Molotov may well prove to be instruments for bringing the dream of the ages nearer to fruition. “It is generally agreed here that the results of the Moscow conference bode extremely ill foi’ Germany,” states the British United Press Stockholm correspondent. “The ‘Dagens Nyheter’ interprets the Moscow announcements as meaning. that the Allies are determined not to repeat the mistakes of the last war. Firstly, they insist on unconditional surrender, giving the Germans no chance again to pretend that they surrendered on the basis of promises which subsequently were broken; secondly, this time war criminals will be systematically punished.” The German news agency quotes the “Volkispher Beobachter” as saying that Britain, Russia and America have embarked on the annihilation of the Reich in the execution of a common master plan. The German overseas radio says one must conclude from the communique that no military agreement was concluded in Moscow. This conference once again has proved that Britain and America are neither willing nor in a position to save Europe from complete Bolshevisation. The German news agency’s diplomatic correspondent comments that Berlin regards the Moscow communique as a typical example of how the realist Stalin allowed his partners to. prattle about alleged diplomatic victories, while he himself and his armies marching into Etirope. rely only on the crushing weight of a military machine against which Europe’s only protection is the German war of arms. The. Moscow conference, the enemy writer adds, laboured like a gigantic mountain, but only gave birth to a little mouse, which is now offered to the world as a cureall.

The European Advisory Commission to be established in London under the terms of the Moscow agreement* will hold its first meetings before the end of November, saysr the Press Association’s diplomatic correspondent. Britain and America will regard the selection of their representatives and staffs as a matter of urgency. A large building is being chosen as a permanent headquarters. CZECH APPROVAL SHORTENING OF THE WAR ANTICIPATED BY DR BENES (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.47 a.m.) RUGBY, November 2. Dr Benes, in a statement to the Tass Agency, congratulated the participants in the Moscow conference on the tremendous results achieved. “Their completeness, farsightedness and simpleness surpass all our expectations,” he said. “I have not the slightest doubt that this literally means a considerable shortening of the war and that the conference can rightly be considered a conference of victory.” The decision about Austria, which vitally affects Czechoslovakia, is wel-

corned in Czechoslovakian circles in London. It is recalled that Czechoslovak statesmen repeatedly stressed the necessity for an independent Austria.