AMERICAN OPINION
ANTI-NAZI AND PRO-FRENCH. The Russian attack on Finland has brought some more strong expressions of opinion from the United States, and at this time it may be of interest to make a brief survey of the development of neutral thought in that neutral country. • First on the list of interesting utterances in the last few weeks is that of Mr William M. Jefferson, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, who said: "We should tell Adolf Hitler. if necessary, that he's not going to win the war and we're going to see he doesn't." Admiral Yates Stirling, of the United States Navy (retired), remarked recently that the United States should openly show its abhorrence of the German submarine campaign. "That can be done," he said, "by joining the Allies." The Countess Clara de Chambrun, sister of the late Nicholas Longworth. Speaker of the House of Representatives, says that the fear of war is "un-American.” Chief Justice James F. Ailshie, of Idaho Supreme Court, admitted, that "It made my blood boil to read about some students at Cornell University who announced that they would not fight except in a defensive war."
The Rev Frank R. Wilson, pastor of St James’s Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, has expressed the hope that King George VI will be granted the strength "to overcome and vanquish his enemies." Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt has said that she could hardly force herself to believe that Colonel Charles Lindbergh (who delivered a broadcast speech in which he said that the Neutrality Act should not be changed and that "sooner or later we must demand the freedom of this continent from the dictates of European Powers" i was in sympathy with Nazi ideals.
Mr Grover Whalen has announced that the people of the United States are anti-Nazi and pro-Fronch. And the last word on the Lindbergh broadcast was uttered by Mr Gene Tunney at the annual meeting of Ihe Associated Industries of Massachusetts. Mr Tunney said he was shocked al the impertinence of the thing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 6
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