ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 21982, 10 March 1943, Page 3

ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA

CRITICISM IN AMERICA

STALIN’S ORDER OF DAY

}(I•: IJ • or! T’i Asssi.—Kli*c. Tel. ropy rig-ill) i Received Merch 10, 11.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 9 I Commenting on Admiaral W. Stanley’s statement that news of American aid is being withheld from the Russian people, the Washington correspondent of the New York Times says: Some congressmen have voiced the fear that the disclosure will strengthen the possibility of the , adoption of restrictive amendments | to the bill before the House to ex--1 tend the Lend-Lease Act for a year. “Some observers have associated the disclosure with M. Stalin’s Order of the Day a fortnight ago, stating that M. Stalin in effect told the Rusj sians that tney are lighting the war 1 alone and thus are entitled to dictate j their own peace terms.” I “Hitherto the Russian press has j not acknowledged the material help | they are receiving from America, not I only through lend-lease, but also j through tiie Red Cross,” complained the American Ambassador to Moscow, Admiral W. H. Stanley, at a conference of British and American correspondents. He added that the head of the Russian Red Cross had acknowledged this help, but the acknowledgment has not been published in the Russian press. “It is noj fair to mislead Americans into giving millions, thinking they are aiding the Russian people, and yet the Russian people do not know it.” he continued. Asked why he thought the Soviet authorities were not informing the Soviet peoples, Admiral Standley said: “They are seemingly trying to create the impression at heme and abroad that they are fighting the war alone —they apparently desire to make out tha* they are fighting the war with | their own resources rather tha‘n to acknowledge help from anyone.” Pointing out that the new Lendlease Bill was now before Congress, he added that the American Congress j was generous and big-hearted, but if they received the impression that their help meant nothing, there might be a different story. More Aid To China Urged Nearly every speaker in the debate in the House of Representatives today on the bill providing for a year’s extension of lend-lease and demanded more aid for China. Mr Eaton, senior Republican member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, warned that disaster was inevitable unless China received something more substantial than vague promises. He suggested placing reciprocal aid on a protocol basis, like Britain and Russia, giving China a specific written allocation of war materials instead of left-over goods as at present.