WARM WELCOME

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 5

WARM WELCOME

MESSAGE TO SOVIET JOINT CONFERENCES MOSCOW AND LONDON (British Oliicial Wireleßß.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 16. The joint message from President Roosevelt and Mr. Winston Churchill to M, Stalin has been warmly welcomed throughout Britain. Not omy is the suggested joint conference at A'loscow felt to be a logical development of the discussions between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill, but also opinion in Britain is greatly impressed by the statement of the need to consider fitting the Russian defence more logically into the pattern of the expressed purpose of Lhe Western democracies. The Daily Telegraph adds: “Mr. Roosevelt has declared that the United States should become the arsenal of ail nations resisting Nazi aggression. His promise is now being unstintingly fulfilled. A signal fact to-day is that lie is not only ‘harnessing the United States resources to the service of the anti-Nazi Allies, but is sharing and even inspiring their counsels. “The Atlantic statement, of which he was a joint author, aims at shaping the channel in which the stream of human destiny shall flow and is a portent which not only the world today, but future history will recognise. This eight-point declaration at once secured acceptance of the worlds three great champions of freedom anci proclaims their common recognition of this struggle for human rights, equally vital in its consequences to all oi them.” The diplomatic correspondent oi 'the'Sunday Times understands that Lord Beaverbrook will lead the British delegation at the Moscow conference. The supervisor of the American lend-and-lease programme, Air. Harry L. Hopkins, will be America’s c-liiet representative. The conference will cover a wide range of subjects, including Russia’s need to replenish tanks, raw material, and the maintenance of supply routes to Russia. Russia will be represented at the conference to be held in London shortly for tiie endorsement of the eight-point declaration. The Moscow radio says that M. Stalin has requested the British and American Ambassadors to convey to Mr. Churchill arid . Mr. Roosevelt the hc-artfelt thanks of the peoples of the Soviet Union for their readiness to aid the Soviet in its war of liberation against Hitlerite Germany. M. Stalin added that he was ready to make all preparations to convene a meeting in Moscow, as suggested, at the earliest possible date. M. Molotov was present when the note was handed to M. Stalin.