INDICATION BY ALLIED LEADERS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22611, 16 May 1945, Page 5

INDICATION BY ALLIED LEADERS

PARLIAMENT SENDS LOYAL ADDRESSES SHARING OF PEOPLE’S FORTUNES LONDON, May 15 Mr Churchill and President Truman were both hopeful today of an early meeting of the Big Three. In reply to a question in the House of Commons whether this was likely, Mr Churchill said: ‘"I devoutly hope so.” President Truman told reporters in Washington that a meeting would take place in the not too distant future. He added that the question was discussed with Mr Eden yesterday. Both Houses of Parliament have made loyal addresses to the King. Mr Churchill in the House of Commons described the King as the symbol of the whole w r ar effort of the British Nation. Lord Woolton said in the House of Lords: "‘The King and Queen have shared the people’s fortunes, foul or fair.” The King will go to Westminster on Thursday to reply to the addresses. Tomorrow the King and Queen, accompanied by the Princesses, will attend a thanksgiving service in St. Paul's. General Eisenhower and General Bradley arrived in London today. When they visited a theatre tonight a crowd which saw them leave gave them an ovation. It is announced that 116,000 men under Supreme Command control have been liberated from prison camps. British and American armies since Alamein have taken 4,000,000 German prisoners. Moscow announces that the Red Army has completed the work of receiving the surrender of prisoners on all fronts. Notes from the British and American Governments are being delivered in Belgrade and that they are intended to make it clear to the Yugoslav Government that, as was agreed in the Belgrade conversations last February, there must be complete unity of command of the Allied forces in Italy and that Field-Marshal Alexander is responsible for the occupation of the whole of that country, including Trieste and the province of Venezia Guilia. The British and United States Governments do not accept the argument that because the swift development of military events allowed Marshal Tito’s forces to reach Trieste more or less at the same time as those of Field-Marshal Alexander the agreement has lost its force. The final disposition of the disputed territories, it is held, must await the peace conference, without prejudice to the Yugoslav claims, which are of long standing and quite clearly understood by the Allies.