The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-24
Anthony Eden Makes Announcement Today
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(oonNlnued og lhs Nhsunlchers. and the sellerD- uli&s from the government
 teslle izofe-D -Dellsha, former var GeeEeeafy and severe critic o& Prime Mlh|ster winston Churchill, also 9ndUfsed tho policy and urged es- N,sl8nce to T,lFkey by quick c0nclu- Nson ok the syrian campaign ln order Co block German ambitions In ksla and Egypt.
 Naan,s statement was the same As nn cartier authoritative announce lnenk reEasdlng Russia, Turkey, Fin. land and the United States.
 What Pledges Mean
 Thase announcements meant, on Nhe hasls Of lneormAnts' statements:
 f-That 90 long As Russia refrains cd from attacking Finland, the Films would leave 1t to Germany tn make any attack on Russia throuRh the KArelian fsthmus, the Baltic danger point,
 a-ThAt on the BFitish and Eus. mian Hanks In the caucasus Turkey would be friendly, It was implied nlalnly that Turkey would continue, ee she eiwayS had said she would, lo resisk by force n necessary, any 0eFnnRn attempt to taack Russia or ehe British Near East through her territory. -
 S-Thas Britain, now implicitly allied with Russia aS she was m she world War, could count on con. tinued and increasing American aid an q joint determination to wipe NaKism from the map.
 Ifa connection with the statement rr American aid in authoritative in~
 "The United states Ambassador sJohn 0. wlnAnt) has come back ffros,, a visit to Washington refresh- ed and inspired by his contacts with fiie President and his country, ana Mtimulated by what he has seen oi fhe immense effort made by the United states"
 Reciprocal Basis
 Britain and Russia, 1t was Said, reached their decision for coopere, tlon orl Q mutual and reciprocal basis. .,.
 AS part of the agreement, Russia mccepted BritAin'S offer 70 aeno ' military and economic mSslon W Rsasla "to coordinate the common 3ask of defeating Germany"
 Yt waR revealed that Sir stanoro e,rinns. British ambassador to Rus. ~ia vino returned here to consult el,T rnVernment when German Rus" sian relations appeared about 70 hrenk. would return to Moscow.
 sfFe vIii be able to direct the help w,,ich it is the clear intention or the government to give tne SoV'e' TniOn," an informant said'
 sronversations have been proceed. ina between ourselves and the Soviet governrnent, who accepted our ofier fo'send military and economic mis. siosss to Russia to coordinate our ef- 2ogts. I.
 sThe Soviet government made It pialn that in the period of military collaboration which lies ahead nelp wili he on c mutual and reciprocal batis. Ills majestys government accept and endorse that view"
 informants took occasion to deny &laak Britain and Russia had ever cci,cluded any kind of agreement S,efoFN dermany's attack on Russia rasarding the Balkans or Germany.
 When Germany attacked, It was ndled, no discussions of any kind were in progress between Russia and Germany.
 The decision meant that Britain and Rusia, with their basically con: fiictlng political ideas, had united to deeaet Germany.
 ft meant also that, in effect, the most dangerous aspect of me zen. circietment" which Adolf Hitler had he feared, had finally become . fact.
 British planes were pounding Ger many and rman-eccupied terri- tory from the west while the Rus. slafag fought the German armored forces on the east.
 Gigantic Pincer Move
 The Germans were believed to Do attempting a gigantic pincer naove' s1asnt north and south of the vast, aIrnost inlpenetrable pripet marshes of Poland in drives aimed ct White Russina on the north and the Uk- raine or the south.
 The Germans were thrusting out from East Prussia and an attempt 10 cut of Lithuania, Latvla and Els. thonia from Russia, and at the same time were developing a two-pronged drive to the south into White Rus sia from Poland and the Ukraine from Rumania.
 Military observers forecast that If the German drives developed as in. dicated, the main Russian forces would fall back to their Stalin line, oa the pre.war Russian frontier east Of Poland.
 ft wss pointed out that the Ger. man drive 90 far affected territory which Russia had seized recently Tatyia, Lithuania, Esthonia, part of Poland and Rumanian Bukovina and Dessarabia.
 Behind It's original frontier, Rus- sia hes powerful defenses which it hes been developing constantly since the last war and the districts af- fected have for years been desig- mated as special military areas.
 The Pripet marshes, great natural