IMPORTANCE OF RUSSIA

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23806, 27 November 1942, Page 5

IMPORTANCE OF RUSSIA

PLACE IN POST-WAR WORLD (Rec.. 9 p.m.) TORONTO. Nov. 25. “The English-speaking democracies should immediately reach a real understanding with Russia and China about post-war aims,” said Mr Wendell Willkie in a speech at a Russian Relief Fund meeting “Russia is iw going to eat us or reduce us. We need not fear Russia, but should work with her against the common enemy. “We need Russia after the war. Russia is a dynamic country, a vital new society, which cannot be passed by m any future world.” Mr Willkie said China’s expressed declaration that she desired no place as the leader of Asia, and above all desired to co-operate in the new interdependent world, was one of the finest statements of war aims yet made The democracies could accept M. Stalin’s statement of November 6 urging the abolition of racial exclusiveness, the equality of nations, the integrity of their territories, the right of every nation to arrange its own affairs, and the destruction of the Hitlerite regime. . , , .. , Mr Willkie, in urging substantial contributions of all kinds to said his own observations had shown that the winter in Russia was going to be terrible. Missing Pilot Lands at Malta.— Missing for a week after taking oft on an operation which should have lasted only a few hours, one of the most brilliant photographic reconnaissance pilots of the Royal Air Force, Squadron Leader Adrian Warburton, D.5.0., D.F.C., and two bars, landed in Malta with apologies for being late. He explained that since leaving the island he had been attacked and his aircraft damaged by eight or more Messersdhimtt 109’s, He had landed at Bone during the early days of the United States and British attacks in French North Africa, and had been flown to Algiers by a French admiral. He was given a lift to Gibraltar in a bomber, borrowed an aircraft to return to Malta, and shot down a Junkers 88 on the way home.—Rugby, November 25.