FAREWELL MESSAGE TO RUSSIANS

Southland Times, Issue 24648, 21 January 1942, Page 5

FAREWELL MESSAGE TO RUSSIANS

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS ON TASKS AHEAD (8.0.W.) RUGBY, January 19. In a farewell message to the Russian people Sir Stafford Cripps, the former Ambassador, is reported by the newspaper Izvestia as saying: “The whole civilized world proclaims your victories and we, your allies, are. proud to count ourselves as such, but the end is not yet. The power of the Nazis is shaken, but not broken. There are still hard battles to be fought before we can acclaim victory. Each one of us must be spurred on to still greater effort and must grasp with sure and strong hands the opportunity won for us by the valour of your armed forces and by the long and bitter vigil of Britain’s Navy and Air Force, which for two long years have fought to keep open the ocean highways—those highways by which help is now being brought to you from ourselves and our American Allies. “We must strike now wherever we can. The British Army is playing its part in Libya, where the Germans and their Fascist servants are recoiling before our advancing troops. We must give them no rest, no time to re-form their armies, no chance to strike in some other theatre of war. They have lost the initiative. We must never let them regain it. “When the victory comes of which we are so confident, our two nations will have the privilege of leading the peoples of Europe toward a civilization of sanity and co-operation.”