NEW OUTLOOK RUSSIANS AND THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 103, 3 May 1943, Page 5

NEW OUTLOOK RUSSIANS AND THE WAR

SOLIDARITY WITH ALLIES

(Special P.A. Correspondent.) , (Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. The Moscow correspondent of the British United Press reports a new atmosphere in, Moscow following Mr. ! Stalin's May /bay statement, which made a tremendous impression. 'It is no exaggeration to say that the people (have been given their first feeling of i complete Allied solidarity since the Russo-German war started," says the correspondent. Alexander Worth, the "Sunday Times" correspondent in Moscow, expresses the opinion that of all • Mr. Stalin's carefully weighed pronouncements it comes very near to being exuberant. "The general impression in Moscow," he says, "is that if Mr. Stalin is speaking so confidently it is because he has complete information on the Allies' plans and also because he is confident of the ability of the Red Army not only to stem any new German offensive but to strike heavy blows in the coming weeks m coordination with the Allies." Against this background, one view lis that the Polish dispute is regrettable but small and local, and, it is hoped, a temporary breach in the vast front unified against the Nazis. It is also I pointed out that while Germany is i planning political warfare she herself has become more vulnerable to it than ever before in this war, and that Allied successes this summer will carry with them even greater possibilities of political exploitation than the German ones, provided they are, accompanied by purpose and progress and not, as in North Africa last year, by the spectacle of political failure and muddle. "The Observer" says that Mr. Stalin's statement "must be rated as a political victory of the first order for the United Nations. It seals nits which up to now could have been construed in the Russian, British, and American war policies. It dashes any hopes which Hitler might have entertained of bringing about a split in the Allied coalition and of a western or eastern separate peace. It marks the end of the period of public prodding, and indicates that military agreement between the three great Allies m Europe is now as complete as their political unity in the demand for unconditional surrender."