SOVIET RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1943, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA

NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION.

GOOD WISHES FROM NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, This Day.

“At no previous period in their history have the people of Russia had greater cause for optimism than on the 26th anniversary of the Soviet Union,” said the Deputy-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, in a statement last night to mark the Soviet Union’s National Day, which occurred yesterday. .“Suffering a year and more of unprecedented hardship, her leaders, with a genius unparalleled in history, and vzith a people inspired, have turned what looked certain defeat into certain victory,” continued Mr Nash. “Living on low standards, owing to loss of her productive lands, Russia with the aid of the United States and the British Commonwealth, has driven the enemy from hundreds of thousands of square miles of her soil. The spirit of her people is taking them forward to a freedom greater than any yet known. • “To produce, as her people have done, the tanks, planes, guns, transport and other equipment, gives a great vision of future possibilities. “The crowning achievement associated with this anniversary is that it follows the signing of the Moscow Agreement, wherein the four major Powers, Russia, China, the United States and the British Commonwealth, arc pledged to work together to win the war and build a better world.

“New Zealand congratulates the Russian Government and its people and looks forward as a small nation to working with all nations for that greater freedom, foreshadowed in the Atlantic Charter.

“Russia’s great example is in the contribution of its working people, who on short commons gave their intelligence, muscles and spirit to save that which they prized. If we, in our time, continue our like contributions, then the difficulties ahead will be overcome during the transition to peace and during the peace years as they have been during the vortex of war.”