STRONG PARTNERSHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25718, 14 December 1944, Page 8

STRONG PARTNERSHIP

BRITAIN AND AMERICA INTERNATIONAL PLANNING Not only as a result of the close working airangcment that has been developed between the United States and the British delegations to the various United Nations’ conferences held thus far, but also as a result of the close personal relationship that has grown up between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, an extremely powerful Anglo-American partnership has been formed, states the New York Post in an editorial article.

To this partnership the rest of the United Nations—including the two other members of the “ Big Four,” Russia and China—have come to look for virtually all the initiative in international affairs. But Russia, while sitting back and letting the United States and the United Kingdom do most of the preliminary planning and proposing, nevertheless constitutes another tremendous influence, largely negative, but no less tremendous, through her, strong individualist attitude on virtually everything.

And inasmuch as she shows no reluctance whatever to object when the plans and proposals drafted by the Anglo-American team fail to conform with Moscow’s views, the United States and Britain usually take into deepest consideration the possible Russian reaction before they make any major move.