PLEA BY LITVINOV

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8

PLEA BY LITVINOV

IMMEDIATE EFFORT

CONFIDENT OF SUPPORT

(Rec'l.3o p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 17. All the nations in the war against Nazism must fight simultaneously, with the maximum effort, declared M. M. Litvinov, the former Soviet Foreign Commissar, who is now in charge of Russian relations with Britain and the U.S.A., in a cable to "Reynolds's News." All must, while helping one another, remember that he who gives in time gives twice. "Hitler counts on the possibility of smashing his enemies individually, one after another," says M. Lityinov. "A decisive victory can be achieved only by withholding this possibility from Hitler. "Already he has ■ transformed nearly all Europe and parts of Asia and Africa into a huge battlefield covered with millions of corpses and heaps of ruins, but he will not be content until he has dragged into this bloody war those few countries remaining outside it. The Russians are inspired by the conscious- ; ness that. in the heroic and titanic fight against bloodthirsty Nazi hordes are centred all the aspirations and expectations of all the ■ peoples of Europe. • "The Soviet peoples are confident of the sympathy and co-operation, of all elements in the front against the Nazis." Observing that it is no exaggeration to say that a new stage in the war begins with British, American, and Soviet collaboration, the Russian newspaper "Pravda" says: "Hitler is preparing for new adventures, weaving a : tissue of intrigues and provocations in i the Near East and exercising pressure i on the weak-willed Vichy Government :in order to break through to West Africa and create there a jumping-off ground for the attack against the American continent. "The first task of the three great Powers is to solve the complex problem of the rational distribution of their incalculable resources."