BRITAIN AND PACIFIC

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 20, 24 July 1945, Page 5

BRITAIN AND PACIFIC

ASSURANCE TO AMERICA

NEW YORK, July 22, The British Lord Privy Seal (Lord! Beaverbrook), in a letter to the "Detroit Free Press," declared that Britain's full resources would be employed against Japan. He was replying to an open letter by the newspaper's publisher, Mr. John S. Knight, who said that anti-British feeling was rising in the United States because Britain's forces in the European war had been smaller than America's and Britain was not making an all-out effort) against Japan.

Lord Beaverbrook declared that tha 3ritish war effort must be measured1 * against the population of the United Kingdom, which was less than onethird that of the United States. Never-* theless, up to May 9 the Empire casualties were 1,427,000, of which Britain's were 944,000, against America's 986,000. Acknowledging that Britain had fought the Far Eastern war with marginal military resources till Germany] was defeated, Lord Beaverbrook declared that this was in accordance with the agreed Allied over-all strategy. "Every warship and bomber, as it can be deployed, will be on the job,'' he added.