AMERICA ROUSED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 8

AMERICA ROUSED

ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENT. ASSISTANCE TO ALLIES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn.—Copyright.) Received June 4, 12.15 p.m. NEW YORK, June 3. Mr Bernard M. Baruch (former chairman of the War Industries Board) told the Press that the United States should embark immediately on a programme aimed at capturing and holding the Latin American markets against the prospective inroads of Germany by resorting to barter agreements, granting credits and even subsidising exports if necessary. At Washington a White House official said President Roosevelt was drafting a programme designed to reduce Governmental expenditures by 10 per cent, in order correspondingly to augment, the defence funds. In Congressional circles it is said the President is also considering means of expediting the disposal , of surplus army and navy equipment. It is not clear whether this has any bearing on reports that the Allies might seek to buy some old United States warplanes. A resolution empowering the President to call up the militia reserves has' been introduced in the House. Representative Bloom has introduced into the House a resolution providing for non-recognition of any transfer of territory in the Western Hemisphere between non-American Powers. i The Secretary to the Treasury (Mr H. M. Morgenthau) announces that he has discussed with Mr JCdsel Ford and other automobile manufacturers the possibility of producing standardised aviation engines for both the United States and the Allies. Senator White told the Press that the'Allies should be given full assistance. “As a starter, we should close the German Embassy arid send the. Germans' home,” he said. “Likewise the Italians, if they come into the War. They are not serving a useful purpose here except to their own governments.” The head of the LTnited States Bureau of Investigation (Mr J. Edgar Hoover), in a broadcast, said: “Conspiring Communists and goose-step-ping Bundsmen are /making the United States a jousting ground for espionage agents and 1 saboteurs.”