GERMAN VICTORY.
INIMICAL TO AMERICA. WASHINGTON, May 7. After lunching at the White House with President Roosevelt, Mr J. W. Gerard, who was United States Ambassador to Germany during the World War, stated to the Press : “We cannot afford to allow the Germans to will this war.” He said a German victory would produce an inevitable attack on United States interests in youth America. He emphasised that he was ‘expressing his own private views. . Mr Gerard was of the opinion that the first attack would probably occur in Southern Brazil and the Argentine, and added that both tlie Russians and the Gormans were “making tremendous efforts in Mexico.” He said ho felt that the Hitler Government was far more' dangerous to world peaco tlian the Kaiser’s because it was much more efficient.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 9
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