SPEECH HAILED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24539, 23 March 1943, Page 4

SPEECH HAILED

AMERICAN REACTION FUTURE WORLD PEAGE (Eccd. 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. March 22 Mr. Churchill's approval of an international organisation to preserve world peace from future aggression is hailed enthusiastically in Washington. The New York Herald-Tribune says it is particularly opportune in the light of the resolution now before Congress, which is designed to achieve that result. The newspaper says Mr. Churchill drew a picture of the future worth fighting for. Jt adds that one cannot help contrasting it with the vague, elusive mist of contradiction and uncertainties surrounding the future policies and purposes of the United States. "Mr. Churchill spoke as a leader impressing coherence upon Britain's aims and the issues of the times," says the Herald-Tribune, "but the United States in these critical days is finding no such voice and achieving no such clarification of its objectives. We cannot yet discuss details, but we need some better grasp of the general problem, some agreed formulation of broad ends in economic policy and statesmanship toward which we are marching." The New -York Times says peals of victory bells rang through the speech. Supremely confident of success and knowing that Britain and her Allies bad safely passed through the worst, Mr. Churchill calmly proceeded to map out a programme for a better world. He was so certain of the final outcome of the war that he devoted himself mostly to domestic issues, even hinting at partial demobilisation when Hitler had been defeated. It was a speech promising a more abundant life after victory.