PLAIN WARNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1940, Page 6

PLAIN WARNING

GIVEN TO UNITED STATES IN PACT BETWEEN AGGRESSORS MR BULLITT’S EMPHATIC DECLARATION. OCEANS AND GREAT NAVY NOT ENOUGH. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 pm.) CHICAGO, October .2. The United States Ambassador to France (Mr W. Bullitt), in a broadcast address, said: “If ever a clear warning was given to a nation that three aggressors contemplated a future assault upon it, that warning was given to the American people by the recentlyannounced agreement signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy and Japan. “The experience of Europe has taught us,” Mr Bullitt added, "that to try to appease a totalitarian dictator is useless. We know that many have tried to do so and have been destroyed. We do not intend to try. Faced by such a threat, the most urgent task is that of increasing our armed forces, especially our Air Force.” Mr Bullitt urged every American to do his utmost to increase the production of arms and planes. Observing that many Americans, honestly believing that the oceans, plus the strongest fleet in the world, would guarantee their safety, he said: “They forget that if England succumbs, the shipbuilding capacity of the yards the dictators already control, plus Britain’s, would be six times the capacity of ours.” Mr Bullitt said the Good Neighbour policy had resulted in the greatest hemispheric solidarity in history, but in many of the South American States there were strong secret Nazi movements which, if they gained control, would invite the Germans to enter; after which dive-bombers would get through to the Panama Canal, as they had got to London.