AIR WILLKIE’S VISIT
MEETINGS WITH BRITISH MINISTERS QUICK TOUR OF LONDON. HOPES OF GOING TO EIRE. 31r Wendell Willkie had a full programme on his firsi day in London, the 8.8. G. reports . He lunched al Xo. 10 Downing Street and handed Mr Churchill a personal letter from President Roosevelt. Afterwards. Mr Willkie visited the British .Minister of Labour tAI r Ernest Devin and it is believed that they discussed man-power. In the
1 morning Mr Willkie Jimi a | talk for nearly an hour with I the British Foreign Secretary ■ Air Anthony 1-Nlen ■. i Mr Willkie also made a quick tour 1 of London, walking through the area I devastated in the recent fire raids. He. | said he wanted to get all the informa-; ■ tion he could. He wanted to talk not: i only with officials but with ordinary i I men and women. From what he had’ seen, he considered the spirit of the. j people magnificent. Mr Willkie was particularly impress-; ed by the fact that he could discuss; questions freely with journalists in ai country at war. Before returning home, Mr Willkie; ■ hopes to visit Eire and see Mr De Valera. When informed of Mr Willkie’s; : intention Mr De Valera said: "I shall ; i very pleased to see him." I , i DEMOCRACY ALIVE i PEOPLE OF LONDON PRAISED. < By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright» LONDON. January 27. Mr Willkie today met represents-’ fives of the Press of Britain, the Allies" and neutral countries. He said he was enormously impressed that such a conference could take place with England under attack. It indicated that democracy was still alive, and he hoped; they would keep it alive. He said he liked the nerve of the men and women of London. He had a personal message from President j Roosevelt to the Prime Minister, which' he would hand to him today. Questioned about the exchange of destroyers for naval bases, he said it was universally accepted by Americans and he personally was very strongly ini favour of it. Mr Willkie said he would talk to the! man in the street in England and; would visit the towns that had been I strafed. He wanted to find out what 1 the shortages-were and how the United States could make them up.
OPEN METHODS SO THAT TRUTH MAY EMERGE. CONTRAST WITH TOTALITARIANWAYS. (British Olliclal Wireless. > RUGBY. January 26. During the week that Hitler and Mussolini met under conditions of furtive secrecy. Mr Wendell Wilikie. President Roosevelt's dour opponent in the election campaign, openly and with the open support of the President, crossed the Atlantic to see British democracy in action and the London newspaper, "The Observer." forcefully compares these rival methods. "On the threshold of Mr Roosevelt's third term." it says ' the world is given the rousing spectacle of American democracy in action: of the President asking Congress for unprecedented powers to help Britain in holding democracy's front line, and above all of Mr Willkie's symbolic part in the fray. "During the week Mr Wilikie has flown the Atlantic to find out for himself what is happening in Britain. Hitler and Mussolini met at Berchtesgaden on Monday. Elaborate care had been taken in Berlin and Rome to hide the fact that the meeting was to take place, and when it took place elaborate care was taken to conceal what happened. “Totalitarian logic disposes of difficulty and opposition by concealing them. It is the logic of the .ostrich Democracy gives play to opposition and truth emerges. Berlin, foolishly unaware of what the truth can do. is amazed at Mr Willkie's conduct " “The Observer" also joins in welcoming Mr Roosevelt’s action in meeting Lord Halifax m {><-:->.•:» up ’he Ambassador's arrival • n Friday “Th:-, nt;.;::. :i< gestura the I’r< ■ -id.-nt - pllt ■ .1 ..,)■> of ~• m, ,d value to the Anglo-American cause." MAN IN THE STREET MR WILLED' MAKES C(INTACT • Received This Day 9 ain • LONDON J. num? 27 Mr Wendell Wilikie lost r-o time m making con*.set with the man in the street He crossed the r>-ad frost: he hotel in Park Lane, after an early breakfast. and chatted with a policeman on pomt duty He stopped a passing British soldier for a chat and later! 4 rave t , an appointment.
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