WARMLY WELCOMED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24761, 8 December 1943, Page 3

WARMLY WELCOMED

TEHERAN DECLARATION ALLIED CONFIDENCE SHOWN (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6 The Teheran declaration, says Renter's diplomatic correspondent, has been warmly welcomed by the Allied Governments in which have read with great satisfaction the statement that the three Great Powers will "seek the co-operation and active participation of all nations, large and small," in settling the problems of the future. The Times says the declaration that Germany will be smitten from the east, from the west and from the south should end all controversies about a second or other fronts. The peoples of the United Nations must now realise that the programme for all fronts has been finally co-ordinated at the only level where knowledge of all the governing factors enables decisions to be taken.

The "Daily Telegraph states that the official declaration adds little to the outline of the post-war world drawn at Moscow a month ago, but nobody could have expected a conference of this kind to publish precise frontiers or to state the precise treatment of enemy peoples at this stage. . The Daily Express says the conference is recognised by all countries as an event which changes the whole character of the wars! Its tremendous significance and power rest on the positive statement of facts. Never has Allied confidence in victory been expressed with the ring of certainty which was found in the declaration issued from the conference, The News Chronicle says the Allied countries have long been asking for the formation of global strategy, and such strategy seems to be achieved at last. It is well understood that the phrases of the joint declaration are a bare outline of far-reaching agreements which will be revealed in detail only when they are put into action against the enemy. When this happens Germany will have no reason to complain that* she has not been fully informed of at least some of the decisions taken at Teheran.

Commenting in the Daily Mail, Ward Price says the motive for making; this meeting the occasion of a special declaration concerning Persia was to close the subterranean shaft of enemy propaganda intended to undermine Allied influence in the Middle East by such scaremongering stories as "Russia intends to dominate Persia" and "the Bolsheviks will establish themselves in the Persian Gulf." The Germans, lie adds, have been trying to sow suspicion among the Allies. All this sapping and mining by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry has been counter-mined and blown sky high by the Allied declaration. SIGNAL FOR ACTION ALLIED FIGHTING STRENGTH VIEWS IN UNITED STATES (Reed. 9.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 0 The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, hailed the Teheran statement oi Allied aims as the signal for concerted action against Germany. He said these concerted plans undoubtedly would result in making effective to the full extent the fighting strength of all the United Nations. "If the conference had achieved nothing more than bringing Marsha] Stalin from the seclusion of the Kremlin to meet President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill it would have accomplished much, because on these three rests supreme responsibility for the fate of the world." says the New York Times. "The results of the meeting, however, far exceed its token value. It has produced a declaration which is sharp and emphatic concerning the war and reassuring concerning the peace. It may be assumed that emphasis on the military aspects meets the wishes of .Marshal Stalin, who long has pressed for a new front in Europe, also those of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill, who long have heeii preparing a mas* invasion from the west. "The declaration reaffirms the Casablanca ultimatum and also promises that the peace will not be a dictatorship of the big Powers, That is the one hope the declaration holds out to the Germans purged of their madman and their madness and willing to live in peace and comity with their neighbours and the world." Mr. Louis Lochner. until 19-12 chief of the Berlin bureau of the Associated Press, savs: "The most significant fact of the Teheran Declaration # is the absence of the words 'unconditional surrender.' It was wise to omit these words, because we on the Allied side know there is no intention to reduce Germany to slavery. Goebhels and his henchmen, however, have been declaring the Allies' earlier demand for unconditional surrender to be a means of creating a coolie colony in the heart of Europe. "On the other hand, a great number of Germans who are fed up with Hitlerism have been listening in vain for some message from the Allies that would help in the struggle for freedom. There has been ground for fear that the words 'unconditional surrender' would weld Germany into a community of despair, thus greatly prolonging the war." VISIT TO WASHINGTON OTTAWA, Dec. R The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, has left Ottawa for Washington, where he will remain several dam Later he may take a holiday further south before returning to Canada. i