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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 June 1941, Page 8

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FEDERATION OF DEMOCRACIES LOS ANGELES, 18th June.—Sir Victor Sassoon, while en route to Shanghai to-day, said that a world federation of. democracies with Britain, Australia and Canada becoming part cf the United States, was essential. “There is another way—Hitler’s It is now so obvious to the world's business men that, a federal alliance is necessary that it hardly bears discussion. England must come into the democracy of the United States with the full right of statehood. It. is also obvious that England must give up her traditions and institutions oft go ve rnment. ’'—U.P. A. AMERICAN TANKS USED LONDON, 18th June.—ln the big; tank battle in the Western Desert! Genera! Wavell for the first, time uredj American tanks, a hundred of which were engaged. A reliable profit and loss account cf the battle is not yet available, but an indication of th? scale of the operations and the size of the German and Italian forces on the Egyptian frontier is given in an Italian report, which states “That an attack by a British force, comprising two armoured brigades with a thousand tanks and several mechanised and infantry divisions was met. with an equally formidable counter-attack from the Axis.” Enemy dispatchv. claim that the attack was aimed at relieving Tobruk. I I