U.S.A. AND WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 6

U.S.A. AND WAR.

UNNEUTRAL STAND. AIRMEN GO TO BRITAIN. (By Air.) SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. Troof of the belief that Britain will eventually win the war against Naziis. is daily seen by the strikingly unneutral attitude of leading Americans all over the United States, and almost every after-dinner spcecli tells of the progress of Britain and her Empire against the common enemy. In almost every section of the United States stalwart branches of organisations for aid to the Allies is doing strenuous work, and scores of aviators from California are leaving every week for England to volunteer their services with Britain. Man • < thers have found their way to Canada and have become instructors to embryo aviators designed to fly for Britain overseas.

Eventual victory by Great Britain over Germany and Ttiily was predicted in Altadeua, Southern California, by John B. Snell, former Mayor of Tunbridge Wells, a city of 40,000 in England. "There is no question about it, and not the slightest doubt but that England will win." declared the former food controller for South-eastern England during the World War. "There is not a sold in all Great Britain that docs not share belief in victory. That spirit over there is line. Air raids? Yes, plenty of them, but Englishmen and Englishwomen sleep through them all. We regard air raids i.i the same light as one would a severe thunder and lightning storm. Certainly one may be struck by a lightning bolt out of the skies, but the chances are many times that he won't. There is simply a feeling of annoyance ;„t being forced to go through such things as black-outs. Problem of Offensive. "In England," he continued, "while n0.., entertains the slightest thought that Germany can invade, there is the problem of an offensive. While all are sure that Germany can never whip England, yet all realise that it is going to be a tremendous job to whip Germany. There are plenty of dark days ahead and much suffering. All England knows this and is ready to meet it. In the end we'll win. There is no need for men. We have plenty. English people are extremely grateful for the sympathy and material aid being extended thus far."

"Judging by Hitler's policies already being enforced in conquered countries, the collapse of Great Britain and a later domination of the United States by Germany would practically annihilate the advertising business," Don Belding, vice-president of Lord and Thomas and president of the Pacific Coast Advertising Clubs, told members of the subcommittees for the Southern California Chapter of the William Allen White Committee to Defend America.

"With this collapse the three fundamentals of democracy which advertising nourishes would likewise break down, to the detriment of all the people. These are freedom of the Press and air, free co;. petitive enterprise and our high standards of living. Advertising keeps a free Press and a free radio in this country by enabling the Press and radio to keep solvent, and only by keeping solvent can a Press or radio be free. It fosters free competitive enterprise by enabling a small manufacturer or business man to grow to his full stature. Through advertising he takes his product to millions who otherwise would never hear of him." To Counteract Nazi Propaganda. At another meeting in California Marshall Stimson, acting-chairman of the Southern Chapter of the William Allen White Committee to Defend America, said in an address to the directors of the organisation: "Wc must, immediately organise for the purpose of giving to the public facts which would tend to counteract the flood of propaganda which goes out from German Consular representatives, Bund and Communistic societies, aided by isolationists and misguided peace societies. We must continue to seek as specific objectives the revision of our neutrality laws so the supplies and munitions can he sent to England to aid her in her fight against Germany. We arc now facing an emergency, and wo must strive to clear out the sources of Nazi, Fascist and Communistic propaganda and to force consular agencies of dictator countries to ecase their efforts to prevent the United States from properly preparing to meet the inevitable attack which Germany will make upon the Americas, provided England can be overcome. "Every citizen of the United States should have one primary objective; that is, to insist upon and aid in every way the adoption of all measures for the p- 'cction of the AVestern Hemisphere. All other considerations—political, business, economic or social—are secondary."

The committee unanimously adopted the objectives, as outlined by Mr. StimSOll.