AMERICA & BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 6

AMERICA & BRITAIN

VIEWS OF MR J. P. KENNEDY MAXIMUM AID URGED. BEST CHANCE OF KEEPING OUT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 11. Mr J. P. Kennedy (Ambassador to Britain) in a copyright interview with the Boston “Globe,” said: "The United States’ chances of staying out of the war are better than they were three months ago. There is no sense in our getting into the war. The .whole reason for aiding England is give us time. England is doing everything we could ask and while she is still there we have time to prepare. It is not that she is fighting for democracy. She is fighting for self-preservation, as we will if it comes for us. We must aid England all we can and give whatever we don’t need, and not expecting anything back. We shall never get the world war debts paid, but we must see that they don’t wind up holding all our securities and we with a long debt. We can take it from them while they can pay for what they need, but when they are through, give it and mark it off as an insurance. The blitzkrieg won't beat the British. Their danger is from the movement for a march towards Gibraltar across Spain, a march for Irak and for Cairo.” The interviewer asked about British democracy and what it means to have Labour supporters at the centre of the Government. Mi'. Kennedy replied:

"It moans that national socialism is coming out of it. Democracy is finished in England, and it may be here, because it comes to a question of feeding the people. It is all an economic question. Aid for Britain is not likely to draw the United States into the war if we are coldly realistic for America all the time. We have no ships and could not send an army anywhere."