TRIBUTES TO SOVIET

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 230, 24 June 1943, Page 5

TRIBUTES TO SOVIET

Goodwill Ambassador

(British Official Wireless.) (Received June 23, 9.50 p.m.) RUGBY, June 22. The former American Ambassador to Russia, Mr. Davies, revealed at a Canad-ian-Soviet friendship rally that his mission to Moscow was in the interests ot the British Empire and the other United Nations as well as America. “My mission was that of an ambassador of goodwill,” he said. “In that connexion, my specific instructions from President Roosevelt were that in that purpose 1 was to be concerned as greatly with the British Empire and the other United Nations as I would be for my own country.” Mr. Daviet spoke. of the grimness of the fighting on Russian soil, with its attendant suffering, personal tragedy, and devastation, and scarcity of food. In a warm tribute to the Russians, he said : "Nothing is too good to give up—nothing too great for them to contribute to the war effort." Russians Congratulated.

On the second anniversary of Russia s fight against Hitlerism, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, has conveyed the British Government's congratulations to the Soviet Ambassador on Russia’s magnificent fight. In Moscow, 60 American Army and Navy decorations were awarded to Russian soldiers and sailors for outstanding bravery. The United Slates Ambassador to Moscow said that the. ceremony was the first of its kind in history. The Russians have marked the opening of the third year of war with a great exhibition in Moscow of captured German tanks, guns, aircraft, and other equipment. X, • 1 A Moscow message reports the arrival of the general secretary of the British Trade Unions Council, Sir Walter Citrine.