UNITED STATES AND WAR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 42, 13 November 1940, Page 7

UNITED STATES AND WAR

Mr. Kennedy’s Opinions CHANCES OF KEEPING

OUT BETTER (By Telegraph—Press Assu. —Copyright.) NEW YORK, November 11. The American Ambassador to Britain, Mr. J. P. Kennedy, in an interview copyright to the “Boston Globe,” said that the chances of the United States staying out of the war were better than they were three months ago. “There is no sense in our getting into the war,” said Mr. Kenendy. “The whole reason for aiding England is to give us time. England is doing everything we could ask.

"While she is still there wo have time to prepare. It is not that she is fighting for democracy. She is fighting for selfpreservation, as we will if it comes for us to do so.

“We must aid England all we can, give her whatever we do not need, and not expect anything back. “We shall never get the World War debts paid, but we must see that they do not wind up holding all our securities, while we have a long debt. We should take it from them while they can pay for what they need, but. when they are through give it, and mark it off as insurance.

A blitzkrieg will not. beat the British. Their danger is from movement —a march toward Gibraltar across Spain, a march for Iraq, and n march for Cairo.

The interviewer asked about British democracy and what it means to have Labour men at the centre of government. Mr. Kennedy replied: “It means that National Socialism will come out of it. Democracy is finished in England, as it may be here, because when it comes to a question of feeding tlie people it is all an economic question. "Aid for Britain is not likely to draw the United States into the war if we are coldly realistic aud for America all the time. We have no ships and could not send an army anywhere.”