NEUTRALITY MUST END.
AMERICAN PAPER’S VIEW. “WAR COMING ANYWAY.” NEW YORK, June 3. The New York Herald-Tribune in a leader entitled “An End of Neutrality” says the time has come for the United States to stand before the nations of the world and declare that, while reasserting its non-belligerence, its neutrality in respect to the European war lias come to an end. “Let us be specific,” the newspaper adds. “There are 13 army pursuit ’planes here of the fastest type just completed. We believe these ’planes should be in the. hands of the Allies a 6 soon as possible to help 6ave London and Paris from' wanton destruction. “If the Nazis so elected, they could regard such aids as constituting an act of war. Perhaps it would be, but we may he assured that war would have come anyway.” The Senate has passed the Vinson. Bill authorising an 11 per cent, increase in the navy’s fighting fleet and returned the Bill to the House of Representatives for concurrence in' the amendments made. - The president of General Motors has been appointed to organise the machine tool industry so that the production of arms can be speeded up.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 7
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