BRITAIN AND SOVIET

Grey River Argus, 30 October 1942, Page 4

BRITAIN AND SOVIET

Strained Relations ? (Rec. LO.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. r Mr Drew Pearson, writer of the syndicate “Merrygoround Column,” , says: “Something must be done soon , about the strained relations between. Britain and Russia. This is one major item of advice Mr Wendell Willkie has brought back to- Washington, k How M? Stalin feels about Britain over the failure to start the second front was revealed at a banquet in Moscow, iru the presence 'of the British Ambassador, M. Stalin said: ‘‘The United States tried to send Russia* some excellent! equipment, which was stopped in Scotland, _„and inferior equipment was sent on.” M. Stalin said he “hoped that the United States would; not send war goods by way of England any more ” Mr Willkie refused to comment on the above, states the Associated Press. RUGBY. Oct. 23.

“The United States and British Governments are acting to repair their deteriorating military and political relations with Russia,” states the* Washington correspondent of the' “Christian Science Monitor.” “It was learned reliably to-day that there is no longer any’attempt to dsguise the fact in Washington, London or Moscow that the Soviet military leaders and the Soviet people are bitterly „ disillusioned over the British and American failure to take sufficient offensive action in Europe- to relieve them of some of the German pressure which they have borne steadily for more than a year. This is grave-, ly impairing Russian relations with . Britain and the United States, and Washington and London now frankly recognise that unless they begin soon fo play an aggressive, decisive military role there is likely to be little chance of effective collaboration with the Russian post-war world, regardless of how the war comes out. “From the most direct routes American officials know that there, is mountng judgment in Moscow that if Russia is going to win the war by itself Russia is going to make the, peace by herself. The feeling is not that Russia seeks to dictate the peace of the world, but she will not be dis- • nosed to collaborate unreservedly with the other United Natons in securing world peac? unless the United Nations soon begin collaborating unreservedly with Russia in winning the war.” “There will be a second front, not only in Europe, but also in Asia,” de-* dared Mr Owen Lattimore, theAmercan political adviser to Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, when addressing representatives of fifteen cultural societies in Chungking. j