ANGLO-RUSSIAN PACT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 3

ANGLO-RUSSIAN PACT

PLEASURE IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, June 17. The signing, of the Anglo-Russian pact was leceived with great satisfaction in Australia, the press and all shades of political thought seeing in 'it compelte unity of action .to hasten ‘an Allied victory. The rank and file were enthusiastic. Men working on an important defence undertaking in New South Wales pledged themselves to work harder before they started their shift last Saturday. They decided .to send cablegrams of congratulation to Mr Churchill and M. Stalin. The men comprise building workers and painters. The deputy-Lcader of .the Opposition, Mr. W. M. Hughes, whose opinions on Russia have fluctuated from time to time, could see nothing but good come out of the pact. “The treaty gives formal expression to the determination of Britain, the United States and the Soviet to prosecute the war to victory and not make a separate peace,” he said. “Coming as it does at the peak of a most intense and fateful campaign it will be hailed' by Allied peoples and their well-wishers /with great satisfaction.” Bishop Burgmann, of Goulburn, New South Wales, who has repeatedly urged a closer alliance with Russia, said: “Signing of the treaty is news of first-class importance. We should be most grateful to the statesmen who have been able to bring these three peoples to this measure of harmony and co-opera-tion.”