AMERICA AND WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 4 June 1940, Page 8

AMERICA AND WAR.

LEADERS’ VIEWS SOUGHT. SMALL INFANTRY FORCES. WASHINGTON, Jane 2. Air Henry Luce, editor of Time and Lite, after a visit to President Roosevelt, broadcast calling on Mr Roosevelt to say without qualification whether he wants the defeat of Hitler and Nazi Germany. He also suggested that Air H. Hoover, the principal presidential candidates, and other notable people should follow with the same statement as a notice of national unity. Air Luce urged Congress to approve of Senator Pepper's resolution urging direct aid to the Allies. General IVlarshall (Army Chief of Staff) 6aid President Roosevelt’s request for discretionary authority to call the National Guard, lor active duty . was a precautionary , move against, the recognised possibility of dangerous developments in this hemisphere. He did not specify where they could be expected. , <®“The United States has only five infantry divisions of 8600 men each available on the continent, and the sixth is being organised,” he said. “Thus in the event of trouble in this hemisphere we would require more trained and seasoned troops immediately. At present . the guardsmen cannot legally be sent out of the country.” Senator K. Pittman (chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee), in a speech prepared for delivery to-night, indicated that the entry of Italy into the war at any moment is expected, and he made alternative drafts in case Italy entered the war before delivery of the speech (states a message from Butte (Montana). The speech states the United States would be deeply affected if the Germans defeat the. Allies and that the “only thing that could relieve the United States from the present threat is Hitler’s defeat.” According to a report from lulsa (Oklahoma) Senator Pittman said there was no possibility of the United States entering the war because “we could not give any help for at least a year. The war cannot last six months longer. Hitler must win within that period or never.” NAZI IMLTRATION. ' , SPREAD IN SOUTH AAIERICA. AVASHINGTON, June 2. Senator Dies said that next week he would introduce a Bill to outlaw the Communist Party and the GermanAmerican Bund. “It has been proved conclusively that they are agents of foreign Powers. Their aim is the destruction of our Government, be The Alontevideo - correspondent -of the New York Times says that a Uruguayan investigation of Fifth Column activities has disclosed astonishing Nazi penetration in South America. There is evidence that Nazis have established ' a perfectly organised branch of the party,- acknowledging allegiance -to Nazi headquarters. . It is reliably stated m< __ Buenos Aires that a member of the Uruguayan Government was approachedr'by a high authority from a neighbouring country (presumably Argentina) with the accusation that Montevideo was used as a centre for the dissemination of Nazi propaganda throughout South America and from which German organisations in various nearby countries were instructed. Mr Elliott Roosevelt, in a speech at Athens (Texas), ; said that Alexico would not hesitate to provide an avenue' for the entrance of interests antagonistic to the United States. “It is common knowledge,” he said, “that agents of foreign Powers have instilled a poisonous hatred in the minds of Alexicans against the United States. A thousand men of foreign nationality are at present residing in Alexico aiid have huge supplies of armaments at their disposal.” The Government of Panama, 'has terminated the contracts of four German professors of the 'National University after Press agitation regarding the activities of a Fifth Column.