SATISFACTION IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 127, 24 February 1944, Page 5

SATISFACTION IN BRITAIN

Speech Clears The Air

(Received February 23, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 22. “No part of Mr. Churchill’s' speech was received in the House of Commons or received 'by the country with greater satisfaction than the firm declaration that in the relations between the three major allies none of the ground made good at Moscow and Teheran had been lost,” says “The Times” in an editorial entitled “Eve of Action.” < “Mr. Churchill’s appeal to close the ranks in the months which are likely to be more than ever times of immense exertion and grievous s-crifice will not go unheeded, and the appeal is all the more forceful for the terms of balanced moderation in which it was made. A condition of its success is that the Government on whose behalf it was made should not neglect the familiar truth that the issues of peace are inseparably bound up with the issues of war and demand no less insistently an active policy that reflects vigorous and resourceful leadership.” Referring to Mr. Churchill s mention of the second front and the High Command, the editorial says: “The House showed its confidence in the arrangements by the warmth of its applause on the first mention of General Eisenhower as commander-in-chief. Under . his leadership the British and American forces will enter Europe as a single instrument of war,” the paper added. The “Daily Mail,” in a leading article, says that Mr. Churchill’s speech was full of information. It was therefore one of the most valuable he had delivered. His assurance that no political ground had been lost among the Allies since the Teheran conference was necessary, because -the indiscretions of “Pravda” and the reception in some quarters here and in America of the Russian constitutional reforms had led to a regrettable revival of mutual, but quite unfounded, suspicion. To sum up. Mr. Cliurchill had performed the most valuable of all services in times of confusion and crisis—he had cleared the air. The “Daily Mail” remarks that Ma - . Churchill said little of the second front, and deduces that it must be close.

Roynl Yugoslav quarters disagree with Mr. Churchill’s statement that a unifying force is growing up round Marshal Tito, says Reuter’s Cairo correspondent. Tliey contend that Marshal Tito’s Partisans have prejudiced the country’s safety by hasty action, and say that General Mikhailovitch’s inactivity is the only possible means of carrying out the struggle till the iproper moment; for striking arrives.