ALLIED NATIONS GREETED

Southland Times, Issue 25668, 10 May 1945, Page 5

ALLIED NATIONS GREETED

Messages Sent By King

(Rec. 5 p.m.) LONDON, May 8. His Majesty the King in a message to President Truman referred to the comradeship in arms of unsurpassable strength which had grown up between the two countries.

“With the cessation of hostilities on the Continent I hasten to send you, Mr President, my warmest congratulations on the attainment of victory over our common foe in Europe.” His Majesty said. “In co-ordination with our Russian Allies, the British and Americans, with the allied forces advancing from west and south under the supreme command of General Eisenhower and Field-Marshal Alexander have fulfilled their part in freeing the Continent of Europe from the horrors of German domination. In the course of the past years and in face of a common danger and grievous losses there has grown up between the peoples of our two countries a comradeship in arms of unsurpassable strength. I am confident that this spirit of comradeship will continue not only until Japan has been finally defeated, but also in the years to come. It is my earnest prayer that the day of that final victory may not be far distant.”

The King in a message to the Chairman of the President of the Supreme Council of the U.S.S.R. (M. Kalinin) referred to the new comradeship formed between Britain and Russia and. said that it was for the continued collaboration of America, Russia and the British Commonwealth to lay the foundation of an honourable, just and stable peace. His Majesty referred to the years of valiant effort which had culminated in “the overthrow of the vile power of Hitlerite Germany and the liberation of the tortured peoples of Europe. “I send you, Mr President, my warm, personal greetings and congratulations on this day of victory and through you I salute the gallant Red Army and Navy and the stalwart Soviet people, whose dogged endurance and splendid achievements have contributed so, much to the victory of the United Nations. ’

All the available resources of the British Empire will now be concentrated on the complete defeat of Japan, the King stated in a message to Generalassimo Chiang Kai-shek. “I am confident, Mr President, that with the Chinese people you will share the joy which I and my people feel at the final victory of the Allies over Germany,” his Majesty said. “But that joy is tempered by the thought that in the Far East the fierce struggle is still continuing against the aggressor whom China was first to resist. In growing strength the forces of the British .Commonwealth on sea and land and in the air are already fighting in the Far East

in conjunction with their Chinese, American and other Allies. But with the conclusion of hostilities in the west all the available resources of my Empire will be concentrated on the complete defeat of Japan which must precede peace, one and indivisible, which is the goal of the United Nations. I look forward with you to the day of that defeat, which draws steadily nearer, certain and inexorable.” His Majesty also sent messages to General de Gaulle, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, the Prince Regent of Belgium, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, the President of the Polish Republic, King Haakon of Norway, President of Czechoslovakia, King Christian of Denmark, the Maharajah of Nepal and the President of Brazil.