PACT HAILED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 165, 15 July 1941, Page 7

PACT HAILED

"BRITAIN WITH US ,,

Soviet Determined To Break

Axis Powers

United Press Association. —Copyright. Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, July 14. The Moscow radio, in a broadcast statement, paid a tribute to the heroism of the British people and their gallant army and navy. It declared that the people of the U.S.S.R. unanimously welcome the new agreement. "The people of Britain are with us," it said. "They are filled with a desire to free the world of the Hitler gangsters.

"Those who are unwaveringly against the Fascist powers of darkness and barbarity were undismayed by temporary failures, neither were their heads turned by victories. The British and Russian peoples will fight without hesitation against the hated enemy. We do not doubt that the united effort of our two great peoples will end. Fascism, which has sown war and death throughout the world." " Freedom-Loving Peoples " The Soviet Deputy-Commissar for Foreign Affairs, M. Lozovsky, in an interview in Moscow, states an earlier cable, described the agreement as a mighty and effective coalition of freedom-loving peoples. It was a document of the greatest historical significance, he said, and by it Britain and Russia had countered Hitler's so-called anti-Soviet coalition.

Answering a question whether he regarded the United States as a silent partner in the alliance, M. Lozovsky said the United States was too great a Power for silence. It was an historical fact that the United States was allied with Britain— openly allied against aggressors.

The Tass agency announced that the people of the Soviet Union had received the news of the BritainSoviet agreement with great enthusiasm.

Mr R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, in announcing from Melbourne that Australia had entirely approved of the Britain-Soviet Pact said it would in no sense affect the Commonwealth Government's internal policy with regard to subversive activities.