AID TO BRITAIN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 284, 17 March 1941, Page 2

AID TO BRITAIN

AMAZING PRODUCTION HUGE AMERICAN FACTORIES "The way they're getting out the stuif to England in America is amazing, was the comment of '•) N'cw Jersey (U.S.A.) visitor to \ r ew Plymouth when he was interviewed by a Taranaki Ilcrald reporler. "America," lie Paid, "is every bit ■'is much in the war as England. Yew Zealand 01 any of the Allied countries except that she has not introduced the use of manpower." The visitor was Mr E. Z. Tayler, of East Orange, New Jersey. U.S.A. who, with his wife, is touring New Zealand. Mr Tayler is president of the Mono Service Company, manufacturer of paper cups, which has branches all over the world. War Declaration Unlikely The American people were definitely! wholeheartedly in support of the Allies, Mr Tayler stated, addj< ing "except the fifth columnists." Many of the foreigners domiciled i.n the United States were opposed to the totalitarian method of government, but he stressed that "a leopard can't change its spots," and there was an element still loyal to Germany and Italy. Unless Japan became belligerent. Mr Tayler considered the possibility of America declaring war very remote, and in his opinion Japan's aggressiveness was bluff. England, he said, did not require additional manpower. On the outbreak of war two English boys who had been serving as cadets in his American factory returned immediately to England to serve: but it was nine months before thev could even begin training. When it was pointed out to him that- in all probability it was not a surplus of manpower responsible for this delay but a deficiency of training facilities, he stressed that it was this deficiency that America was helping materially to relieve.

"In Connecticut they went out into an open field and put up f; factory." he continued, "and when you get inside it you canot see the other end. It's turning out nothing but aeroplane engines. In a locality near where I live there's a huge factory making nothing but propellers, propellers,, propellers. The 'Tommy' guns are coming from another factory, 'click, click, click,' just like that. And those are only three factories I know of." Asked if he considered a declaration of Avar by America would have a detrimental cfTect on the production of these vital materials, Mr Tayler pointed out that much of it so urgently needed by England, would be diverted to the American troops.