AID FOR RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24736, 13 October 1941, Page 6

AID FOR RUSSIA

MOSCOW CONFERENCE NOTABLE RESULTS ACHIEVED AIMING AT COMPLETE VICTORY Otec. 7 p.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 11. "During the last generation," Mr Vernon Bartlett said in a broadcast speech oh his return from Moscow, "Russia and ourselves have followed two very different systems of government. This greatly increased the suspicions you might normally expect to find-- between two peoples, whose languages and customs have been so unlike throughout the centuries. "For more than a year," he said, "the British Empire has had to bear the brunt of. the war, and now it is the turn of the Soviet Union. If we want victory and not merely a stalemate, we have to learn to help each other as two great nations have never done before—otherwise we do not take advantage of the fact that Hitler has involved himself in a war on two fronts. " How does the work of the Beaver-brook-Harriman mission to Moscow stand out against that background of facts? " Mr Bartlett continued. " How can it give Russia the help she needs to repel the German attack and how can it dispel the suspicions that have grown up between Russia on the one hand and Great Britain and the United States on the other? I believe that the Moscow Conference has gone very far to achieve these two objects," he said. "Before Lord Beaverbrook arrived, the Russians talked of a conference lasting three or four weeks," Mr'Bartlett stated. "As vou know, it lasted *>ur days, and that was more than Lord Beaverbrook had intended. It was'; in fact, unlike any other conference I ever attended before. It began in the usual way with the appointment •f half a'dozen committees. " But it coon became clear," he said, " that there were only three delegates, namely. Lord Beaverbrook. M. Stalin and Mr Harriman: Advisers and experts had to work like slaves to produce their reports on time. And this a* if turned oiit was the only possible technique, because you cannot be in the Soviet Union for a week without realising that everybody hesitates to reach decisions without the approval of Stalin. In such circumstances, Lord Beaverbrook and Mr Harriman had to be as ready as Stalin himself to accent full responsibility." /Mr Bartlett concluded by stating that $ his opinion the growth of Russian cordiality in those few days was un~ ftakable. The rulers of Russia could rbe in no doubt, he said, about the iish and American determination to i supplies in great quantities to eastern front Members of tho mission agreed that the Soviet is an tbj of great strength, great determinatfcn and great courage. [ISOLATIONIST MOVE TrtOriifilTiNG LEASE AND ~ LEND AID MOTION HEAVILY DEFEATED (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. The House of Representatives rejected by 162 votes to 21 the isolationists' amendment seeking to prohibit Lend and Lease aid to Russia. The House by 328 votes to 67 passed and sent to the Senate a new Lend and Lease Appropriation Bill for 5,985,000,000 dollars.