ALLIED UNITY

Evening Star, Issue 25326, 7 November 1944, Page 5

ALLIED UNITY

SPELLS GERMANY'S DOOM ! AND ONLY HOPE FOR LASTING PEACE STALIH SALUTES HIS WESTERN PARTNERS (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 6. Speaking in Moscow at the celebration- of the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Marshal Stalin emphasised that the victories won against Germany in the past year had been gained toy the concerted operations of aH the Allies. He surveyed the progress of the war since Russia was forced' to join in. Until the present year, he said, the Russian army was still fighting alone. " In the fourth year of the RussianGerman war big and decisive battles were won by the Soviet armies and the armies 'of our Allies," he said. " During this year the Germans had to fight on two fronts, and were thrown back to the frontiers of Germany. The results are that German troops have been driven from the Soviet Union, France, Belgium, and Central Italy, and the fighting has been brought to German territory.

" In the past year over 120 German and satellite divisions have been defeated or routed. Of the 287 divisions which last year faced the Soviet troops 207 were German

Now, after total and super-total

mobilisation, 204 divisions are fighting against the Soviet Union, and

of" these not more than 180 are German."

Marshal Stalin said that in this war the German army was more powerful, treacherous, and experienced than in all previous wars, and used the production of nearly all Europe and mobilised considerable'armies from her vassals.

" If, despite all this, Germany is now on the verge of the abyss, this must <be explained by the fact that Germany's main oppponent has surpassed the strength of Fascist might. In the past year the Red army did not fight single-handed, but together with the armies of its Allies. FRUITS OF TEHERAN.

" The conference at Teheran was not in vain, and blows from the west, south, and east have been carried out with great accuracy. The simultaneous operations of our Allies and the Red army compelled Germany to wage a two-front war. Our Allies carried out a massed invasion of France on a scale and in a way unknown in history. Germany, taken in a pincer movement' from two sides, has been unable to

withstand the Allies. It is beyond doubt that without the opening of the second front in Europe, which has pinned down 75 German divisions, the Soviet troops would not have been able in such a short time to break the enemy's resistance and drive him from the Soviet Union. But it is also without, doubt that, without the victorious operations of the Red army, which engaged up to 200 divisions, the Allies would not have been able in such time to liberate Central Italy, France, and Belgium. A condition of victory is that the Germans must be held between those two fronts.

" New victories have been achieved on our economic front. The production of planes, guns, and armaments is several times greater than before the war." In the field of agriculture great work had been done, also in the liberated areas, where rehabilitation was being swiftly accomplished. Railway transport had met the demands upon it with efficiency and discharged tasks which could not have been achieved by the railway transport of any other country. RUSSJAN MILITARY STRENGTH.

" Our army and its rearguard organisation have proved their unbreakable and increasing strength, and, despite war conditions and the temporary enemy occupation of important economic regions, war production has gone up.

" At the present moment the Red army possesses more tanks and guns than the German army and in quality its arms are much superior.

" Difficulties over the war have not broken, but, on the contrary, they have strengthened the iron will andl courage of the Soviet people. " This year the peoples of the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States are united in strengthening their unity, and are in agreement in the fight against the Germans. In the history of all wars and united operations against a common enemy there has seldom been unity executed with more completeness and exactness.

THE UNITY THAT IS STRENGTH. " There is also little doubt that successful operations on the part of the United Nations on the war fronts have

resulted in unity in other fields. A striking example is the conference at Dumbarton Oaks. There were, of course, some disagreements, and) there will still be disagreements on a number of questions. There exists disagreement between members of the same party, and there naturally must be disagreements between representatives of various countries or parties. The astonishing thing is not that there were disagreements, but that there were so few, and these few disagreements have nearly always 'been solved. There also existed serious disagreements on the question of the second front, but finally the United Nations reached complete agreement on this. Another such striking example of agreement is the recent conference in Moscow with Mr Churchill and Mr Eden. The conference was Carried out in a friendly atmosphere, and in almost complete unanimity. The Germans made desperate attempts to break up the United Nations and to foster mutual suspicion amongst them. All these attempts failed, which meant that the basis of the Soviet alliance with Britain and the United States had not temporary motives, but vitally important and lasting reasons. PATTERN FOR THE FUTURE.

. " If our alliance with Britain and America has stood up to the tribulations of three years of war all the more will it stand by the concluding phase of this struggle," Marshal Stalin continued. " Hitler's allies have deserted him, and doubtless Hungary will leave him. Germany will then be isolated. " There is no doubt the United Nations will win the war, whose last stage has been reached, but we must not only win the war, we must make future war impossible, if not for ever, then for a long time. " Germany will emerge from the war politically and economically shattered, but we know she is already preparing for the next war. After Germany's defeat she will, of course, be disarmed militarily and economically. It will take about 20 years for Germany to recover from her defeat. Aggressive Powers who prepare for war over a long period are more powerful than peaceloving nations; .therefore, special measures must be instituted against aggression.

" The only way is to create a special organisation of the United Nations to preserve peace .and security and give it armed forces and responsibility to apply them immediately to avert or suppress aggression. This is not like the League of Nations without resources or powers, but will be a new armed organisation to avert wars. It will be effective if the great Powers which bore the brunt of the war continue to work unanimously and in accord—and only so. If war should flare up again it should be checked at the very outset and never allowed to develop. It remains for us to defeat the German Fascist in his own lair and to hoist the flag of the Soviet Union in Berlin. This will be done in the near future."

Marshal Stalin revealed that 30 divisions of the enemy in the Baltic States were out off from East Prussia, and were being hammered to smithereens.