BUYING SECURITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 5

BUYING SECURITY

MR STIMSON ON AID TO BRITAIN CONFIDENCE IN ULTIMATE VICTORY. AXIS VULNERABILITY. Giving evidence before the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, the 8.8. C. reports, the American Secretary for War (Mr Stimson) said the probability of an ultimate British victory in the war was overwhelming. '•We are not seeking to make loans to Britain,” Mr Stimson deelured. "We are seeking to purchases her aid in our own defence. We are buying our security while we prepare.” Mr Stimson said the Axis was vulnerable in many respects. Italy was already in straits and the German .Army was spread out very thinly. The Japanese Army was also spread out very thinly, much more thinly than the German .Army, and Japan's economy had been strained.

He thought an .Axis collapse possible and that it might come much more speedily than defeatists supposed.

GALLUP POLL VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN • PEOPLE. NEW YORK. January 29.' A Callup poll in the largo urban centres shows that 51 per cent of the people favour the passage of the* British Aid Bill.

Dr. Gallup points out that the vote from the smaller centres may greatly I alter the percentages. He added: ' "About one person in six approving the : Bill wants some sort of amendment, chiefly by a time limitation and a provision that the President be forbidden to send troops or the .Navy abroad." STRAIN ON GERMANY REPERCUSSIONS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. ißeceived This Day. 9.25 a.m » WASHINGTON January 29 The Secretary for War. Mr I Stimson, testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and predicted the probability of an overwhelming British victory, if Britain survives the spring and summer crisis. He said the Lend and Lease Bill meant that the United States was "buying time from Britain" while the United States rearms. Mr Stimson added that the •-■train, under which German, has bi-ru lab-j curing already had caused repcrcus-1 sions in Italy, Rumania and Norwayq He said the Japanese economic situa-J tioti had been strained for a long time | but Italy was in "serious straus, ’’ while j the British morale was unimpaired.