BODY BLOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1943, Page 3

BODY BLOW

AGAINST CRUMBLING NAZI WAR MACHINE

FINAL BLOW ABOUT TO FALL.

COMPLETE CONFIDENCE OF ALLIED LEADERS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 5. “Never before in the whole course of the war have the Allied war leaders shown such complete confidence in the operations to come against Germany as that revealed in the joint Roosevelt-Stal-in-Churchill communique," says the Exchange Telegraph Agency’s correspondent. “Their plans have been concerted. The final Allied blow against Germany -is about to fall. Any slender hopes Hitler and his gangsters may have had that the Moscow talks failed, that Marshal Stalin had thrown a spanner into the works, that there was dissension in the Allied ranks, has been smashed by the fact that Marshal Stalin’s name appears on the most, vital communique that has ever been issued by the three , great allies. The communique in itself, is a body blow against the rapidily-crumbling German war machine.

“The three greatest Allied leaders, surrounded by their military experts and political advisers, drew up blueprints not only for the final terrific assault on Germany but also for the peace to come. It seems incredible that such vital decisions could be taken and such tremendous plans made with such speed. It reveals one vital thing—thei complete understandng existing among the combined Allied chiefs of staff. All the little loose ends have been tied up. “The world Press correspondents were not allowed to go to Teheran, but all officials said the same thing, namely: “Never has there been suchhigh spirits and optimism and such complete confidence as was displayed from the start of the conference to the end by the three leaders. They made plain by their demeanour that there is now no chance of major reverses and that the war in Europe is nearing its end."