AID TO RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 5

AID TO RUSSIA

BRITAIN URGED TO DO MORE TIMK FOR miOST l!Ol.l> | N KSS CONDON PICKSS CRITK ISM “Wli;il t>m niiliOn-v ;ic-l ioii u ill bo in I'iioo oi' I lit- prosont peril lo Hus.sili Mood mil 1.0 (li.oomosod, but it would appoiu' th.it the proson t is a moment for the utmost legitimate boldness,” suvs “The Times” in an editorial. “Tho ai gument Sat this ( am(dc'rnianv may bo imo, lull the implications may prove 1 misleading. No other such ally can over appear in the Old World; no other' army that can face Germany's full might can replace the Red Army if it were overthrown. “Perhaps a final victory can be won even if Russia fell, but the road lo il would be long and weary and the world would Ih> miserably c.xhaii: led a I the end We there ft . tallant, (log : every means in our power. We have the satisfaction of knowing Unit we can now meet demands to winch we could not have responded a few months ago. Meet them we must. so far as i humanly po> • ible " The Brit ish Pres; generall> criticise Britain's lark of assistance to Russia The journal "New Statesman" savs"Official opinion *.c« ms to consider that nothing on the Western Front is possible Apparently the British General StalT regards tin* risks as too great; equipment, especially shipping, is short; the Government fears anothci Dunkirk or Crete; and the British diversion could not be more than a large seal** ■ a d of no -ub tantial a - b tan< c lo Ku^ia. “No seel ion of the Press regards these answers as adequate Everyone doubts whether the experts an* fully alive to the extreme urgency of the situation. Leningrad. Moscow and the Ukraine are inst as much parts of the British front as the Belgian frontier he. RISK OF INACTION ‘The risks com to he lost than the risk of inaction The German front from Narvik to the Mediterranean is thinly held hv second-class troop', A diversion would seem possible in Norway fnc Iberian peninsula nr t von *To •' first neec i*y is to hasten aid it d eript ion t< tl Ru who are fighting the battle of Britain as well as the bailie of Russia. The common people and tho workers of Britain mu t’ lie taken far more into the* Government's confidence. They must be convinced bv the appointment of Ministers and officials who understand that this must be a people's \va r." .John Gordon, writing in the ''.Sunil a;. F.xpis “One day i of them are killed, the German soldiers will crack We cannot tell how long it will take, but vve do know that by killing them ourselves we can ba.-ten it. So our business, like that of the Russians, is not so much to plan fur killing Germans at some time in the remote future, but to set about doing it now. ‘The thing we need most in this country at the moment is an in.igoralion of our Sighting spirit. This is not a time to be sitting still; it is a time tn be up anti doing “ “Ki m: AW AKI NING The “Daily Mail" says : “The recent news from Russia is extremely disturbing. Many people here are rudely awakening from Use dream that Russia is winning the war for us. It is now evident to the blindest optimists that the gravest situation has arisen in the southern sector of the Russian front. Grider such foreboding circumstances. !Yl. Maisky (Soviet Ambassador), appealing to British workers, has cried •\Vo need tanks, more tanks and yet more tanks Twice gives he who gives at the right time.'" The “Daily Telegraph'’ says : “Cabinet las adopted an ‘all-in plan’ for material aid to Russia in the next few months, which the British delegation iolncing before the Moscow conference The Russians’ greatest need is fighters and tank? to replace the terrific wa.-t age. Tho Ru mans still posses: considerable reserves of war material, but the extent to which they will be able t< throw their resources into the present struggle depends on the* ability of Britain and America to replenish their before the fiercer battles of next spring ‘From a long-range view Russia and oil-drilling plants to equip new factories still beyond tfie bombing range. The British plan covers these aspects, and the British needs have been cut to Hie bone to provide 4lie maximum possible aid."—lß.A