HELP FOR RUSSIA

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

HELP FOR RUSSIA

MEETING IN MOSCOW

JOINT MESSAGE TO M. STALIN

MAXIMUM SUPPLIES

The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Nash) announced today that President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill at their recent conference agreed upon a joint message to M. Stalin, Mr. Nash released the text of the message, which deals with steps already taken by Britain and the United States to co-operate in supplying Russia with maximum supplies and to a proposal to hold a meeting in Moscow so that speedy decisions may be arrived at in regard to the apportionment of their joint resources. The text of the message is as follows:— "We have taken the opportunity afforded by consideration of the report of Mr. Harry Hopkins on his return from Moscow to consult together as to how best our two countries can help your country in the splendid defence that you are making against the Nazi attack. We are at the moment co-: operating to provide you with the very j maximum supplies that you most ur-j gently need. Many shiploads have i left our shores, and more will leave in the immediate future. "The needs and demands of your and our armed services can only be determined in the light of full knowledge of the many factors which must be taken into consideration in conjectures that we make. In order that all of us may be in a position to arrive at speedy decisions as to the apportionment of our joint resources, we suggest that we prepare a meeting, to be held at Moscow, to which we would send high representatives who could discuss these matters directly with you. If this conference appeals to you, we want you to know that, pending the decisions of that conference, we shall continue to send supplies and material as rapidly as MORE LONG-TERM POLICY.. "We must now turn our minds to the consideration of a more long-term policy, since there is still a long and hard path to be traversed before there can be won that complete victory without which our war efforts and sacrifices would be wasted. "The war goes on upon many fronts and before it is over there may yet be further fighting on fronts that will be developed. Our resources, though immense, are limited, and it must become a question as to where and when those resources can best be used to further our common effort. This applies equally to manufactured war supplies and to raw materials. "We realise fully how vitally important to defeat Hitlerism is the brave and steadfast resistance of the Soviet Union and we feel therefore that we must not in any circumstances fail to act quickly and immediately in this matter of planning the programme for the future allocation of our joint resources."