Litvinov Urges a Combined Effort

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 196, 19 August 1941, Page 5

Litvinov Urges a Combined Effort

HITLEB AIMS TO SMASH HIS ENEMIES ONE BY ONE l LONDON, Aug. 17. “All nations in the war against Nazism must fight simultaneously with their maximum effort,” declares M* Maxim Litvinoff, former Soviet Foreign Minister, in a cable to Reynold's News. “All must, while helping one another, remember that he who gives in time gives twice.” M. Litvinoff adds: “Hitler counts on the possibility of smashing his enemies individually, one after another. Decisive victory can be achieved only by withholding this possibility from Hitler. “Hitler has already transformed nearly all Europe and parts of Asia and Africa into a huge battlefield covered with millions of corpses and heaps of ruins, but he will not be content until he has dragged into this bloody war those few countries which remain outside it. ‘ ‘ The Russians are inspired by the consciousness that in the heroic and titanic fight against the bloodthirsty Nazi hordes are centred all the aspirations and expectations of all the peoples of Europe The Soviet peoples are confident of the sympathy and co-operation of all elements in the front against the Nazis.” Observing that it is no exaggeration to say that a new stage of the war begins with the British-American-Soviet collaboration, the Moscow newspaper Pravda says: “Hitler is preparing new adventures. He is weaving a tissue of intrigues and provocations in the Near East, and is exercising pressure on the weak-willed Vichy Government in order to break through to West Africa and create there a jumping-off ground for attack against the American continent. The first task of the three Great Powers is to solve the complex problem of rational distribution of their incalculable resources.”