COMBINED EFFORT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 January 1944, Page 5

COMBINED EFFORT

CONTRIBUTION TO VICTORY VALUE OF LEND-LEASE AID YEAR OF DECISIVE ACTIONS (Rcc. 9.50 a.m.) Rugby, Jan. 6. President Roosevelt stated to-day that all nations were giving what they could for victory when he transmitted to Congress his 30th Lend-Lease report covering the period ending 30th November. The President emphasised that neither lend-lease statistics nor dollar funds of any kind could* measure the relative contributions of nations towards winding up the war. “The coming year will be a year of decisive actions in the war,” said the President. “By combining their strength the United Nations have increased the power of their common drive to defeat the Axis. "We have already beaten back the enemy on every front on which wc are engaged. At Teheran and Cairo plans were agreed on for major offensives which will speed the day of victory. With the closer unity achieved we shall be able to strike ever-increasing blows until the unconditional surrender of the Nazis and the Japanese. “Mutual aid has contributed substantially to the strength of the United Nations. The flow of lend-lease assistance from the United States to the Allies and reverse lend-lease from the Allies to the United States has increased the power of our united offensives. Some countries like the United States and Canada, located away from the fighting theatres, are able to make available to other nations large quantities of food and manufactured arms. Others like the Soviet Union and China require virtually everything we can produce to fight the enemy on their own soil. "The cost of the war to the United States and our Allies is high. The more fully we can now mobilise manpower, supplies and other resources for the decisive task ahead, the lower will be the final cost oi victory. The United Nations in the New Year are stronger and more firmly united than ever before The Germans and Japanese will both soon learn that to their sorrow.”