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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 10

OTHER VIEWPOINTS

AUSTRALIA AND BELGIUM

LONDON, August 15. "A declaration of rights and a public avowal of the complete union of the spirit existing between the British and American people," was how the Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, summed up the eight-point plan contained in the joint declaration of Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt. "It is a most momentous statement setting out in plain terms the common aspiration of freedom-loving people throughout the world," he said. "The German Government will not neglect to note the significant fact that it is a declaration by one nation at war and another which is neutral. I regard the declaration as not only an affirmation but also as a warning." A British Official Wireless message says that the declaration has made a deep impression in Belgian Government circles in London, where it has been received with the greatest satisfaction. Official Belgian circles state that it is" extremely important that the solemn agreement on such principles between Britain and the United S>tates should have been made, for this has emphasised the solidarity which unites them. CORRESPONDING AIMS. One interesting feature of the statement is the close correspondence between the programme outlined and that recited in the third paragraph of the resolution which was passed at | the Inter-Allied Conference in London on dime 12. Indeed, it may be said that when compared, these documents show a . broad identity of viewg between the Allied Governments and the United States on qll the main issues that will confront the world after the final destruction of Nazi tyranny. At the June conference the representatives of the Empire and Allied nations agreed: "The only true basis of an enduring peace is the willing cooperation of free peoples in the wciid in which, relieved of the menace of aggression, all may enjoy economic and social security; it is their intention to work together, and with the other free peoples, both in war and peace, to this end."'