MIGHTY EFFORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 7

MIGHTY EFFORT.

UNITED STATES DEFENCE. "END TO APPEASEMENT.” WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. President Roosevelt, in a speech at a Teamsters’ Union convention, said America was rising to meet the evergrowing need for adequate physical armed defence. He promised not to abandon Labour, who would gain as the result of rearmament. At- the same time he pointed out that in countries where unions had disappeared the iron hand of the dictator had taken command. Mr Roosevelt emphasised that people who yielded their liberty for revolutionary promises received only the rationing of news, religion, clothes and bread. "Our mighty defence effort against all present potential threats cannot be measured alone in terms of a mathematical increase of soldiers and sailors, guns, tanks and planes,” the President said. "Behind it must stand a united people. I hate war more than ever. I have one supreme determination —to do all I can to keep war from these shores for all time. “Let us have an end to appeasement, which seeks to keep us helpless by playing on fear and by indirect sabotage of all the progress wo are making.” A conference between representatives of the Senate and the House of Representatives agreed to a conscription measure requiring the registration of men between the ages of 21 and 35. It eliminated Mr Fish’s amendment providing for a GO day postponement of the draft. The Senate passed the Export and Import Bank Bill, increasing the bank’s lending authority by 500,000,000 dollars. Mr Edsel Ford announces the building of an 11.000.001 dollar plant to construct 4000 double Wasp aero engines for the Government, delivery to begin in March. ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN. NEW~YORTv, Sept. 12. The Herald-Tribune says the Steuben Society is launching a drive against British influence in America for which a hundred of the society’s members are each contributing a hundred dollars. The society is described as politically the most powerful GcrmanAmericah group.