Collaboration Between Allies Is Unsatisfactory

Northern Advocate, 16 March 1944, Page 6

Collaboration Between Allies Is Unsatisfactory

(Received 11 a.m.) (Special) LONDON, March 15. “The unsatisfactory nature of existing machinery of coliaboratoin between the American, Soviet and British Governments” is commented on by Mr. Vernon Bartlett, M.P., in the “News Chronicle.”

He says that personal relations between Marshal Stalin. President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchiil could not have been bettered and it had been hoped that the European Advisory Commission established after Mr. Edea's visit to Moscow would convert their mutual goodwill into mutual co-operation between Governments. That hope, however', had not yet been fulfilled to the particular detriment of the British Commonwealth. The latest and most striking example, is the Soviet’s decision to exchange diplomatic representatives with the Badoglio Government and enter into relations with Italy, which does not seem compatible with armistice conditions. Mr. Bartlett believes that whatever the cause, it does illustrate all too clearly that there is not yet that close collaboration between the Soviet, United States and British Commonwealth which, without a doubt, leaders on either side desire to see established.

Britain Loses Prestige

He adds: “The British Government has gone to the limit in urging the Foies to accept the half-loaf offered by the Soviet rather than commit suicide by maintaining claims with little historical justificaton and no chance of realisation.

“Britain has, in the process, become as unpopular as any other peacemaker and has had to find new, tortuous and unconvincing interpretations of the Atlantic Charter and has lost some of that confidence which it won for itself in the smaller European, Allied and neutral countries. In the same way, the British Government is faced with a whole series of faits accompli by the United States in Spain and Eire.” Mr. Bartlett thinks that changes are necessary in three directions. (1) There should be a much more definite statement of British policy. (2) An increase in the importance of existing interAllied organisations. (3) Mr. Eden should abandon his decidedly successful, but very arduous, leadership in the House of Commons and concentrate all attention on the increasingly complicated problems facing the Foreign Office.