HOW AMERICA LOOKS AT THE WAR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 182, 5 July 1940, Page 3

HOW AMERICA LOOKS AT THE WAR

"The opinion of one columnist i cqulcl perhaps be ignored; that of ] seven cannot, and much the most i striking feature of the replies was I the reiteration of one Avriter after ! another of the belief that American j opinion was evolving in the same ' way as British opinion, with a time- | lag of two or three years," says the ; Economist. "'Just now we appear," ; wrote Mr Raymond Gram Swing, 'to be passing out of our Baldwin era ! and approaching our Munich era. i We are entitled to the patient uni ders landing of any Englishmen who ' can recall their own evolution.' i How fast and how far the further | evolution to the war will go it is : impossible to predict. It will not go far —on the surface at least —in this 1 election year. But if, in Y2 months ; time, a further stage in the process of facing hard facts should coincide with that period after the election is over, when, as Mr Lippmann put it, 'public men do begin again to think about the realities and the people do again respond to leadership,' we may yet find America taking the place in the world which} is hers by right of tradition of sympathy and of self-interest."