KEEPING OUT OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1940, Page 5

KEEPING OUT OF WAR

BETTER WAVS TO HELP BRITAIN AN AMERICAN VIEWPOINT. MR W. A. WHITE INTERVIEWED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.40 a.m.) NEW YORK. December 23. Mr William Allen White announced ' that the Committee for the Defence of America by Aiding the Allies opposes sending American convoys to Britain or repealing the Johnson or amending the Neutrality. Acts to permit American ships to carry contraband into the war zone. The statement, which is in response to an inquiry by Mr Roy Howard, is published under copyright by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Mr White said the organisation’s only motive was to keep the United States out of the war. If he” were writing a motto, it would be: “The Yanks aren’t coming.” He added that repealing the Johnson Act wotdd be stupid and would give no help to Britain. There were half a dozen good legal ways io get aid to Britain. Carrying contraband into the war zone would lead the United States into war. “The Yanks are not coming, because we could not equip transport or feed them if they went,” Mr White said. “We have under 200.000 ready and need them worse on the assembly belt than in Europe. America will go to war, or stay out, not because it would make Hitler mad. but only when, as, or if Hitler thinks he can win while we arm behind the British Fleet and England fights. Hitler will never think he can win unless he starts a war to slow down aid to Britain. Any organisation that, is pro-war is playing Hitler’s game.”