JOINT AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1942, Page 5

JOINT AIMS

IN PEACE AND WAR BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. I . BROADCAST BY MR EDEN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 4. The Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden, spoke of his journey to Russia in a broadcast tonight, lie said: “It was not the first time I had made a journey to Russia. Nearly seven years ago I was in Moscow. We were not then at war; the sky was not even overcast, but the clouds of war were beginning to gather on the distant horizon. You could just discern them. That was why J was in Moscow in 1935, talking with M. Stalin. “I believed then, as I believe now, that there was no real conflict of interest between the Soviet Union and this country. We both said so in our communique at the time. I believed then, as I believe now, that in spite of the many obvious differences our overriding purpose was the same. We both wished to maintain peace. “We lost that peace, but we are determined not to lose this war or the peace that will follow it. And so I was glad of the chance to go again to Moscow to speak again with M. Stalin. “The Royal Navy carried us to our destination in the north of Russia with swift, quiet efficiency. They were wonderful hosts, but it was not an easy ijourney. We drove through heavy winter seas, and at one time—so they told us—we had tons of ice on board. I confess I was glad when we rounded the North Cape and were sailing along the Murmansk coast.”