FAITH IN BRITISH VICTORY

Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 4

FAITH IN BRITISH VICTORY

AMERICA’S ATTITUDE WOULD INTERVENE IF NAZIS WERE PREVAILING [l’Ei! United Pkess Association.) AUCKLAND, September i’C. The opinion that the vast majority of Americans would not be averse to active participation in the war should Great.'Britain be faced with a dire extremitv was ex Dressed by Air Lloyd Soto, an executive of the Californian Shipping Company, who arrived by the Honolulu Clipper from San Francisco. Air Soto is on his way to Australia to complete arrangements for the delivery of one of his company’s steamers, a vessel of G,OOO tons, to Die agents of the Siamese Government, which has purchased it. The speed-up of American defence measures and the production of war material for Britain had resulted in greatly increased industrial activity in the United States, Air Soto said. There had also been a great demand on tonnage as the result of the British activity in the shipping world. The failure of the Germans to make any attempt to invade Britain during the past two months was taken by American public opinion to indicate that Britain would eventually triumph. Air Soto said it was generally accepted in the United States that active intervention bv America would be inevitable should there bo any likelihood of a Nazi victory.