The Waikato Times TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1943 UNITED NATIONS’ COLLABORATION

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22136, 7 September 1943, Page 2

The Waikato Times TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1943 UNITED NATIONS’ COLLABORATION

Why is Mr Churchill remaining so long in the United States ? Unless urgent international business is afoot there seems to be good reason why he should be back in Britain. A correspondent suggests that the visit is being prolonged because Italy is expected to surrender, in which case urgent problems will arise for discussion among the Allied leaders. There has been an impression that Italy would offer only a token resistance to the invasion before capitulating. This may account for the failure of the Germans to rush into the toe of Italy to attempt to keep the Allies out. If that had been done the collapse of Italy would have placed the whole German force in jeopardy. On Italy’s own admission she is anxious to surrender on any terms that “sound just and practical to her.” Mr Churchill, it appears, has been negotiating for closer collaboration among Britain, the United States and Russia. It is reported that a high authority in Russia has been given representation on the newly formed Allied Mediterranean Commission. Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt are eager to meet Marshal Stalin, and Khartoum has been suggested as a meeting place. Such a conference is higly desirable and might have a profound influence on the whole course of the war. It should not be beyond the ability of the three leaders to arrive at a common policy for the conduct of the war, interim administration of reconquered territories and the reconstruction when the war is won. It is useless to disguise the fact that some suspicions still exist on both sides, and they will remain until the representatives of the several countries get together and come to an understanding. An announcement that enduring agreement had been reached on these problems would give a tremendous lift to Allied morale and deal a telling blow to the lingering hopes of the Axis peoples. It is indeed when the war is won that the world will reach one of its most crucial periods. Something must be done to give people everywhere an assurance of security not only against a repetition of the ghastly experience of the past four years but also against the international strain and restraint that made a tragedy of the two decades between the two wars. Britain, the United States and Russia will in fact be responsible for the future of the world. They will have the power to disarm the Axis ahd to lay down the future of international relations. They can promote or destroy the wellbeing of the whole population of the world. That is why it is imperative that the Allied leaders should meet and at least lay the foundations of the policy of war and of reconstruction. It is certain that Mr Churchill is deeply engaged in these problems while he remains in the United States.