FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1940, Page 5

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

ADDRESS BY AMERICAN PRESIDENT FULL SYMPATHY DECLARED WITH ALLIES. ASSURANCE OF MATERIAL AID. President Roosevelt's address in a world-wide broadcast delivered at thej graduating exercises at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, was not wholly intelligible to New Zealand listeners as it was rebroadcast by the national stations this morning. Passages of the speech which could be picked up indicated that the United States was prepared to give every material assistance to the Allies and that the United States itself would have to use its resources to provide equipment and training equal to the task of meeting any emergency that might arise.

President Roosevelt said all their sympathies were with those who were giving their lives for them against the forces of destruction. He referred to efforts he had made to prevent the war from spreading to the Mediterranean and deeply deplored the decision of the Italian Government. No one could foresee how much greater the theatre of war might be. The prayers and hopes of the United States were with those beyond the seas who were fighting with magnificent valour for freedom. In their American unity they must extend to the Allies all the material resources of the nation and harness and speed up those resources in order that they might have the equipment and training equal to the task of meeting any emergency. They must not slow down or detour,'as the occasion called for speed and full speed ahead. The future of the American' peoples was at stake. He called for effort, courage and devotion, which the love of freedom demanded. The address was cheered vociferously by the audience to whom it was immediately addressed. AID SHORT OF WAR ACCORDING TO SENATOR PITTMAN. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 10. Senator Key Pittman said Italy’s entry into the war would accelerate the effort of the United States to aid the Allies, but the people of the United States did not desire to enter the war.