BUSY AS EVER
MR WENDELL WILLKIE IN BRITAIN
STRUCK BY ATTITUDE OF WORKING PEOPLE. i TOWARDS WAR OF LIBERATION 'British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY. January 29. ! Mr. Wendell Willkie continued a ; busy day with many engagements, ini chiding a talk to the Press. "What struck me most forcibly." he I I said, "was the unanimous attitude i of British labour towards the war. I heard no dissenting voice and am assured that in the trade union movement there is none. British working men look on this war as a war for the liberation of working people everywhere. They do not regard it as an Imperialistic war." Mr. Willkie found complete unanimity towards the war. "All." he said, "have taken the resolute view. ’We are going to boat the Germans.’ ”
Next week Mr. Willkie is going to the industrial Midlands. "I have made a special request that when I go into a factory I shall be free to talk to men on the job—as many as I can." he said. Mr. Willkie has had conversations with General Sikorski and also with the Polish and Chinese .Ambassadors and Sir Robert Kindersley. With General Sikorski he discussed conditions in Poland under the German yoke and assured the Premier of the universal sympathy felt for Poland by' the people of the United States.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 6
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