ALLIED AID FOR RUSSIA

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23740, 11 September 1942, Page 5

ALLIED AID FOR RUSSIA

COMMENT ON REPORTED DISAGREEMENT (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 9. The Washington correspondent oi the “New York Times” says officials do not comment on reports from Moscow of a disagreement between Mr Churchill and M. Stalin over the conduct of the war, but informed circles consider it significant that the Russian censor passed press dispatches describing bitterness arising from the popular belief in.Moscow that help from the United Nations cannot be expected soon, The correspondent adds; “This is. possibly another form of Russian pressure for a second front this year, but there is no indication in Washington whether Allied military action in Europe within the next few weeks would dissipate Russian apprehensions. It is understood that Mr Churchill in Moscow hoped to ease M. Stalin’s mind particularly over the operation of supply lines for Russia, but it is not revealed whether Mr Churchill satisfied him.” “The Moscow talks brought Mr Churchill and M. Stalin closer together in burning hatred of Hitler and .Hitlerism transcending their former political differences,” said Mr Averell Harriman, who accompanied Mr Churchill to Moscow, when speaking at a Russian war relief meeting. “The Russians not only want a second front in Europe as early as possible, but also hope that the United States will keep the Japanese occupied In the

Pacific, thus preventing an attack on Siberia.” Mr Harriman said he found the Russian people determined to fight on alone if a second front did not come. The Russians had made plans to continue the war even if they lost the present phase. They had moved vast industries behind the Urals, and opened there new mines, oil wells, and farm lands.