AID FOR ALLIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1940, Page 5

AID FOR ALLIES

UNITED STATES URGED TO DECLARE WAR STATEMENT BY PROMINENT PERSONS. MR STIMSON’S ADVOCACY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, June 10. Forty prominent persons issued a statement in which they said that the United States should immediately declare war on Germany. Mr Henry L. Stimson, who was Secretary of State during ■ the last war, in a letter to the New York “HeraldTribune,” urging immediate aid for the Allies and universal military training, said: “Too long have we obstinately refused to see that the Allies’ battle is our battle. We should send not only food, clothing and medical supplies, but also arms and ammunition in unlimited quantities.” The chairman of the Committee to Defend Americans by Aiding the Allies, Mr William Allen White, proposed that the United States should publicly announce her intention to aid England and France with the immediate sale of all possible planes to the Allies, further legislation enabling the sending of all kinds of naval and military supplies, an outright gift of 100,000,000 dollars for the care of Belgian and French refugees, and repeal of the law prohibiting Americans from volunteering for the Allies.

ALL POSSIBLE HELP STATEMENT BY FORMER ISOLATIONIST. WASHINGTON. June 9. The former isolationist Senator Vandenberg said that, since American foreign policy has traded neutrality for non-belligerency, the United States should give all possible help to' the Allies short of war or the impairing of her own defences. Americans, he said, cannot any longer be isolationists, but they may still be insulationists. The problems facing the United States would be simplified if the Allies won, or if seizures of areas in the Western Hemisphere were attempted. “At this point,” he said, “we would fight.” Senator Vandenberg added that the interests of the United States with the Allies were not inseverable, or the United States ought to be at war tomorrow, with everything she possesses. Any other course would be cowardly suicide.