MR. CHURCHILL SAYS "WAIT"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 207, 1 September 1943, Page 2

MR. CHURCHILL SAYS "WAIT"

TJSJ'IDESPREAD expectations that.Mr. Churchill's broadcast would * * contain the announcement, either of some great new stroke by the Allied armed forces, or of the capitulation of Italy, have not been realised. The Prime Minister has said, in effect, that the Allied peoples must wait, and continue to trust their leaders, who are resolved to make the best use of their forces and to start no great enterprise until they are assured of "continued success." Mr. Churchill, indeed, was much more restrained in his utterance than is usual with him, and it is reasonable to assume that his restraint is, due to. the extreme difficulty, in present circumstances, of saying anything that will neither raise false hopes among Allied peoples nor be informative to the enemy. As to the other question of great interest, that cf relations with Russia, he said enough to support the surmise that he and President Roosevelt desire a meeting with Marshal Stalin, and that so far they have not been able to bring it about. His statement that a meeting of the three Foreign Ministers "seems most necessary and urgent" more strongly suggests that the present situation is due largely to an absence of response from the Kremlin to British-American approaches.