STEPS DECIDED UPON

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24760, 7 December 1943, Page 3

STEPS DECIDED UPON

BRITAIN : UNITED STATES : RUSSIA

PLANS CONCERTED IN TEHERAN

"NO POWER ON EARTH CAN PREVENT IT"

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received December 6. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 6 The following declaration was issued on Saturday following the three-Power conference in Teheran: We, the President of the United States of America, the ' Prime Minister of Great Britain and the Premier of the Soviet Union have met these four days in the capital of our ally Persia and shaped and confirmed our common policy. We have expressed our determination that our nations shall work together in the war and the peace that follows. "As to the war, our military staffs joined our round-table discussions and we concerted our plans for the destruction of the German forces. We reached complete agreement as to the scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from the east, from the west and from the south. The common understanding which we reached guarantees that victory will be ours. " As to the peace, we are sure that our concord will make it an enduring peace. We recognise fully the supreme responsibility resting upon us and all the United Nations to make a peace which will command the goodwill of the overwhelming masses of the' peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror of war for many generations. " We surveyed, with our diplomatic advisers, future problems. We shall seek the co-operation and active participation of all nations, large and small, whose peoples in heart and mind are dedicated, as are our own peoples, to the elimination of tyranny, oppression and intolerance. We will welcome them as they may choose to come into the world family of democratic nations. " No power on earth can prevent our destroying the German armies by land, their U-boats by sea, and their warplanes by air. Our attacks will be relentless and increasing. "We look from these conferences with confidence to the day when all peoples of the world may live free lives, untouched by tyranny and according to their varying desires and their own consciences. We came here with hope and determination. We Jeave here friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose." Following the statement that the declaration was signed at Teheran on December I, 1943, appear the signatures of President Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin and Mr. Churchill.