UNITY OF ALLIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 6

UNITY OF ALLIES

MOSCOW BROADCAST

(Special P.A. Correspondent.) Sec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, January 19. A statement emphasising the unity of Russia, Great Britain, and the United States till victory was won, and the need for their co-operation afterwards, was broadcast last night by Moscow radio, says the "Daily Telegraph" j Both the authorship of the article,, expressing" these views and the occasion of the broadcast following the world-wide publicity given to the "Pravda" report of the peace talks with leading British figures in the Iberian Peninsula are to be noted also is a leading member of central committee of the Communist Party in Russia. Dmitri Manuilsky, one of the most influential of Russian publicists and an old and valued friend of Stalin. Earlier in the evening Moscow had broadcast the British Government's categorical denial of "the fantastic" report "Pravda" had published. The attention of the Russian Government had officially been called to this denial by the British Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, John Balfour. This denial was included toy Moscow radio in the home service bulletin at 9.30 p.m. Before midnight Manuilsky's article had been broadcast. It was primarily addressed to the Russian people and began by paying a tribute to the achievements of the Red Army. The article referred to the importance of the Soviet in the post-war world, and added: "The Teheran conference, the first meeting among the leaders of the three great Powers of the world, demonstrated the unity of the Soviet, England, and the United States, their firm belief in victory over j Germany and her vassals, and also) their determination to continue close co-operation after the war.