AMERICA AND THE WAR.

Evening Star, Issue 23700, 7 October 1940, Page 7

AMERICA AND THE WAR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —During the past week many attempts have been made to explain the objective of the new Axis alliance along lines calculated to show that the only countries likely to be harmed by it are the signatories themselves. To anyone who was in the United States in the post-war years when the anti-British feeling that was a legacy of the last war was runuing at full tide against England, and was familiar with the current American sentiment trial George Washington had thrown the English tax-gatherer out of America, but President Wilson had let him back again with a vcr.'Toancc, an entirely different possibility readily suggests itself. It is that the; conclusion of” the alliance and the liming of it in the midst of the Presidential elections has been designed to swing Hie elections in favour of Mr Wendell Willkio by bringing sharp!v homo to American electors a fear that trio British tax-collector is again lurking just around trie corner and that President Roosevelt’s foreign policy is rapidly leading America into a position where he will be able once more to dip deeply into American taxpayers’ pockets for Inigo contributions towards the cost of still another English war--the same issue which, in fact, precipitated the Revolutionary War. The fake interview attributed to Mr Wendell Willkio by the ‘ Christian Science Monitor ’ looks an obvious counter-move designed to persuade American taxpayers that they would be in no bettor ease with Mr Willkio as President. Facts that appear quite unknown locally arc that Mr Willkio is of pure German origin, all four grandparents having been Germans born in Germany, and that lie has given an unqualified pledge not to send a single American boy overseas to fight in this war.—l am. etc.. Observed. October 5. [The ‘ Christian Science Monitor.’ which is fervently pro-British, supports Mr Willkic’s candidature.—Ed. E.S.]