HELP FOR BRITAIN
ESSENTIAL TO AMERICAN SECURITY • 1 A BANKER S TESTIMONY. CONFIDENCE THAT GERMANY WILL BE BEATEN. i Received This Day. 9.25 a.m.i NEW YORK. January 28. Mr J. P. Morgan’s partner, Mr Thomas W. Lamont, in a speech urging speedy passage of the Aid to Britain Bill, said! “The salvation of England is a matter of selfpreservation for us. Germany is beatable, is being beaten and will be beaten. Once the British are masters of the air, with thousands of American planes, they will drive Germany from the .Cham,el ports. That will be the beginning of the end. With the ports gone Germany's hold on France will have vanished overnight.” Refuting Colonel Lindbergh’s statement Mr Lamont said: "Under a German victory, not only would Europe remain an area of semi-sinvery, but the whole world would receive an economic setback for generations' He said business was dead set ag.im-. appeasement and declared that B;':ai;: "Was not going Socialist but warfighting to preserve the individual liberty which had been the nation. watchword for a thousand yc-u -
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5
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176HELP FOR BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5
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