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...Anglo-Soviet Treaty of May 26, 1942, says: "Britain and Russia wish to unite with other like-minded States in adopting proposals for common action to preserve peace and resist aggression in the postwar period...
...clashing ideologies of the Soviet-Anglo-American coalition (from Stalin's address on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution, Nov. 6, 1942): "It would be ridiculous to deny the differences in ideologies and social systems of these countries. [This does not] preclude the possibility of joint action on the part of the members of this coalition against the common enemy...
Nevertheless, said Mr. Churchill, the war at sea constitutes a "repulsive and somber panorama." Shipping losses must be reduced by the production of more escort vessels, even if production of merchantmen has to be decreased. Said the Prime Minister: "The more sinkings are reduced, the more vehement our Anglo-American war efforts can be. ... The greater the weight we can take off Russia and how quickly the war will end all depend upon the margin of new building and forging ahead over losses which are, although improving, still lamentable and . . . grievous...
...ally. Turkey is our friend. We wish to see her territories, rights and interests effectively preserved, and we wish to see in particular warm and friendly relations established between Turkey and our great Russian ally to the northward to whom we are bound by a 20-year Anglo-Russian treaty...
...Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia, gave an official version of Anglo-Russian relations. He emphasized in a speech broadcast to Europe that Germany was again "flaunting the Red peril." He said that there was a "deepseated wish, or more, a determination to work with the Russians in peace and in the war" that German propagandists could not shake. "Let them reflect for a moment," he said, "upon the common man in Britain and Russia and China, on his way of life ... a spontaneous revolt against anything for which the Fascists stand...