American Judge on the War
A comment on the American attitude to war and to the Neutrality Law if given in a letter received from a judge in the United States by Mr. E. J. Bell, librarian at tiic Canterbury Public Library. The writer. Judge William Harper, of Louisiana, has been corresponding with Air. Bell for some time. He says: "So you are at war! May God Save the King be a true reality. Because. if the monster downs your King, civilisation will bo destroyed. For that reason I have argued all along the democracies cannot let Hitler win. He and all his like must be forever banished. or all the effort is for nothing. It is for this reason that 1 am strongly in favour of immediate revision of our Neutrality Law. I hope it will be changed soon, so that America's resources may be thrown into the breach on the side of democracy. Many of our narrow-minded citizens, however. cannot see the matter as I do, and will do everything in their power to hold the present law. I think, however. that public sentiment is too strong against Hitler in the country to sustain the present law —and you know laws usually follow public sentiment in free countries."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 3
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210American Judge on the War Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 3
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