RUSSIA’S NEED

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RUSSIA’S NEED

AID FROM ALLIES Industrial Losses [Aus: & N.Z. Cable' Assn.], LONDON, October 6. Mr. J. L. Garvin, writing in the “Observer,” says: “Russia possesses inexhaustible resources oil fighting manpower by comparison with Hitlerism. If that manpower can be sustained more and more bv. British and American weapons, munitions and material then, let the conflict be as long and grim as it may be, final triumph will be assured.” He adds: “Russia must be supplied at all costs. The British people have to get on top of the crisis of supply by the greatest industrial effort they have ever made.. The American people have to face a change over from ordinary business to the tremendous war output that will save their own future and that of mankind. ; One passage of Hitler’s latest menaces is no empty vaunt but a formidable warning. His accumulation of equipment and his power of further production is still colossal. The industrial democracies of the west .have yet to outproduce him. They must triumph on the factory front' before they can conquer on the fighting front.” The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. V. Alexander) to-day emphasised the urgent need for all aid to Russia. Britain, he said, was going to see that everything possible should be done for Russia. The people who .knew realised that this must be done. Britain would go on with Russia to the end, which he believed was victory. A mile-long procession .of Bren gun carriers passed through London streets to-day, inaugurating a further “aid for Russia” drive. Mayors of six London boroughs appealed for an increased output of arms for Russia. The Ministry of Supply states that last week’s production of tanks will be another record for a first week s production of any month up to date. The impetus of the “Tanks for Russia” week is continuous. The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) has sent the following message to the Minister for Aircraft Production: “I should like you to convey to all those working on aircraft production in all its branches. my thanks and congratulations on last month’s record output. Never has the need been more important for both ourselves and our Russian ally. The pilots are ready, and I am sure that you will deliver the goods ’ • “We on this island are experiencing a short respite from serious air attack,” said the Minister of Economic Warfare, at a National Council of Labour meeting at Newcastle. Dr. Dalton, however, warned that there must be no relaxation of effort during the interval, or abatement of the will to victory. “The war,” he said, “is one and indivisible, whether on rhe Russian plains or in the Middle East, or in the skies over this country, or in the Battle of the Atlantic. The success of. the Moscow conference, together with Russia’s favourable declaration regarding the Atlantic charter, shows the unity of purpose of the three greatest Powers on earth— the British Commonweal I ,th, the United States, and the Soviet Union.. We must fight the common enemy by military warfare, economic warfare, and political warfare. We must hold up before the eyes of the enslaved populations, not only the assurance of deliverance from the bestial Oeiman oppressors, but of a new order, in which there shall be peace and plenty, freedom, and security for all.” Pride in Russia as an any was expressed bv the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Diocesan conference The primate said he felt a new spirit had been shown in recent years by Soviet leaders, and a fuller plan had been given by to religious toleration. In view of the mighty issues at stake, it was rather the present and future, which were more spoken of. than the past and what now concerns the British people is not any party or economic system, but the'new and most moving uprising of the whole Russian people. “Who cun tell what the effect may be upon the ordering of the postwar world of closer relationship between. on one hand. Russia, united bv affliction, and emancipated from errors of the past, and on the other, the British Commonwealth and the United States.” The Archbishon added: “We haye something to learn from Russia in the bold far-seeing planning of economic resources for the good of the whole community. Thev have something to learn from us in Hiving scope for freedom and responsibility of human personality.” BRITISH WAR FACTORY INEFFICIENCY. (Rec. 7.10). LONDON. October 6. Drastic action is being taken to eliminate inefficiency in the war factories. This is revealed bv Mr Barlow, secretarv to the North Region Production Executive. He s'aid: “Practically the whole management of one firm has been cleared out. Inspectors investigated every complaint of slackness. \ Many were unfounded, but where they were justified the services of important executives have been dispensed with.” It is understood that most of the dismissals have been in the engineering trade.