ICE BREAKING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21068, 13 April 1943, Page 3

ICE BREAKING

FEELING IN RUSSIA ATTITUDE TO ALLIES (Special Correspondent.) LONDQN, April 11. Writing in the Sunday Express, Mr. J. L. Garvin, voices the opinion that Herr Hitler’s last bid for world mastery by the destruction of Russia will be the worst of all liis attempts. “His concentrations for a blow to the heart are enormous,” he adds. The Sunday Times’ correspondent, Mr. Alexander Werth, in Moscow, remarks that, he is witnessing more thau ever before a gradual ice-breaking—-the Russians’ increasing faith that the Allies mean business and that whatever happens on the Russian front this summer other fronts will not be idle. One of the biggest straws in the wind is that eight Moscow cinemas are beginning to show the film, “Desert Victory.” Another good sign is the unprecedented prominence given in the whole Soviet press to Tunisia, the effect of the bombings on German civilian morale, and the war at sea. Mr. Werth says: “There is still much scepticism." Nevertheless, I observed an important change this week, perhaps a fundamental change with a lasting effect on inter-Allied relations. I think the next two months will be decisive in this respect.”