OBSTACLES TO AID

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 75, 25 September 1941, Page 9

OBSTACLES TO AID

SHOULD BE SWEPT ASIDE

FULFILLING INITIAL PLEDGE

LONDON, September 24

• "The Times" says in an editorial: "The increasing realisation of the critical dangers to which the Russians are exposed' is causing British public opinion to ask uncomfortable questions,

"Mr. Churchill's speech on the night Hitler launched the invasion rallied the whole country and pledged it to full co-operation with Russia; but have the Government's activities fully come up to the spirit of the' initial pledge?

* "Five weeks' have elapsed between the formation of the British mission and its arrival in Moscow. An easygoing belief that Russia is doing the job for us must be resolutely discarded.

"Lay opinion is unable to judge on details of man-power, and production, but it is entitled to an assurance that adjustments are being made in accordance with a considered plan. Obstacles against full production are attribute^ on the one hand to untimely exigencies of trade union discipline and on the other hand to mismanaging or selfseeking employers. Such obstacles should be unsparingly swept aside, from whatever quarter they come."