NEED FOR UNITY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 64, 16 March 1944, Page 5

NEED FOR UNITY

ALLIED "BIG THREE'' "Machinery Of Collaboration Unsatisfactory" N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Mar. 15. "The unsatisfactory nature of the existing machinery of collaboration between the American, the Soviet and the British Governments," is commented on by Mr. Vernon Bartlett, M.P. (Ind., Somerset) in the News Chronicle. He says that the personal relations between Marshal Stalin, and Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill could not be better, and it had been hoped the European Advisory Commission, established after Mr. Eden's visit to Moscow, would convert their mutual goodwill into mutual co-operation between the Governments. That hope, however, has not yet been fulfilled to the particular detriment of the British Commonwealth.

The latest and most striking example is the Soviet decision to exchange diplomatic representatives with the Badoglio Government, and entering into relations with Italy, such as do not seem compatible with the armistice conditions. Mr. Bartlett says that whatever the cause, it does illustrate all too clearly that there is not yet that close collaboration between the Soviet, United States and British Commonwealth which, without doubt, the leaders on either side desire to see established.

He adds that the British Government has gone to the limit in urging the Poles to accept the half-loaf offered by the Soviet, rather than commit suicide by maintaining claims with little historical justification and no chance of realisation.

Remedies Suggested Britain has, in the process, become as unpopular as any other peacemaker, has had to find new, tortuous and unconvincing interpretations of the Atlantic Charter and lost some of that confidence which was won for itself in the smaller European Allied and neutral countries. In the same way the British Government is faced with a whole series of faits accomplis by the United States in Spain and Eire.

Mr. Bartlett expresses the opinion that changes are necessary in three directions: (1) There should be a much more definite statement of British policy. (2) An increase in importance of the existing "?J5 er * Allied organisations. (3) Mr. Eden should abandon his decidedly successful, but very arduous leadership of the House of Commons and concentrate all his attention or the m creasingiy complicated problems facing the Foreign Office.

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