RUSSIAN AID.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 158, 5 July 1940, Page 8

RUSSIAN AID.

FOR GREAT BRITAIN.

"WILL FINALLY COME IN."

M.P. DRAWS PARALLELS.

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WIiLLIXOTOX, tlii P dav

The view that Russia would eventually come into the war to aid Britain was expressed in the House of Representative* to-day liy Mr. Williams (Government, K.aiapoi>. who drew a parallel between tin , . situation now and that which on i-ted in tli» Napoleonic \v«iw. He said that lor, many people were inclined In lie He had always br.-n a keen student <<[ history, and had been impressed by the remarkable parallel betwoan the *s it Use - tion nwv and in the time of Xa|ioleon Britain was in an almost identical position, except that then e-lie had no great Dominions to help her. and th" I'nitod States was hostile. Yet Britain won out in spite of the fact that the whole of Europe was dominated by Xapoleon.

There was a further parallel in the fact that Xelson had in jro tn Cniienha.£i?n to destroy the Dani-ii Fleet. Today Britain was in definitely a much better position than it wa-- then. Today there w:i:- a friendly United States.

'A lot of ]*eople are turninjr their eyes to Rtii=«ia. and are doing a pond deal of wifllfu) thinking."' «aid Mr. William*. "There is a hope that Russia may come into help Britain. It mav happen—if the parallel I have drawn i' s continued h will happen. There will lie no iinal decision until Russia does (Mime in. Her navy and air force mar <i'i\e Britain supremacy in thus*' directions, but Britain will have diftieultv in finding sufficient man-power f> invade the Continent, and drive the Germans back to Berlin miles* Russia comes in. That i* the hope of the democracies today. Russia came in and saved Europe from Napoleon. I believe that will .be the solution of the present war if we ran pet rid of that foolish hostility to Russia, 'because she has a different economic and political syet«ni from our own."