REAL UNDERSTANDING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1942, Page 3

REAL UNDERSTANDING

WITH RUSSIA & CHINA ON POST-WAR AIMS. URGED BY MR WILLKIE. TORONTO, November 25. The English-speaking democracies should immediately reach a 'real understanding with Russia and China about post-war aims, said Mr Wendell Willkie, in a speech at a Russian Relief Fund meeting. “Russia is not going to eat us,” he said. “We need not fear Russia, but should work with her against the common enemy. We will need Russia after the war. Russia is a dynamic country, a vital new society which cannot be passed by in any future world.” Mr Willkie said that China's expressed declaration that she desired no place as leader of Asia, but above all desired to co-operate in a new interdependent world was one of the finest statements of war aims that had yet been made. The democracies could accept M. Stalin’s statement of November 6 urging the abolition of racial exclusiveness, with equality of nations, integrity of their territories, the right of every nation to arrange its own affairs, and the destruction of the Hitlerite regime. Mr Willkie, urging substantial contributions of all kinds to Russia, said that his own observations had shown that the winter in Russia was going to be terrible.”