RED VIEW ON BLAME FOR WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 5

RED VIEW ON BLAME FOR WAR

LONDON, September 1 Rec. 10 a.m.). —The Czech press alleged today in, editions commemorating the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War that Britain, the United States, and France were to blame for th war, “because they nourished that mad dog Hitler, who later turned and bit his masters.” There were solemn ceremonies in Danzig today, where the first shots of the war were fired by a German warship against Polish forces besieged on Westerplatts, and in Warsaw silent processions wended their way all night through Victory Square.to pay homage at the tomb of Poland’s Unknown Warrior. In an order of the day commemorating the anniversary, the Polish Defence Minister, Marshal Symierski, declared: “We shall, not forget that we owe our liberation to the heroic Russian Army.” In Moscow, the Soviet Foreign Affairs journal, New Times stated: “The Soviet people bore the entire burden of the war against the German Fascist invaders. Not until it had become obvious that the Soviet Union was able by itself to achieve a decisive defeat of Hitler Germany did the Western Allies, fearing to find themselves outside the victory feast, enter into military operations in Europe.”