WARNING NOTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 5

WARNING NOTE

STRUCK BY AMERICAN. MINISTER NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY REGARDING WAR. ISSUES NOT YET FULLY REALISED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, April 22. The Secretary of Commerce, Mr Jesse Jones, addressing the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, issued a warning that the American people had not yet been “shocked” into realisation of the war to the nation’s future. “There is no room in America for complacency,” he said. “There is no place for indifference. • Certainly there is no place for obstruction and it should not be tolerated. “No matter how fast defence production climbs. it will not be fast enough to meet our need or to satisfy our anxiety. There is no place in the crucial world of 1941 for any delay or any excuses.” TROOPS FOR EUROPE BISHOP HOBSON'S ADVOCACY. NEW YORK, April 21. Bishop Hobson, chairman of the newly-formed Fight for Freedom Committee, issued a statement declaring that American troops should be sent to Europe the moment they were needed to beat Hitler. “It is dishonest to ignore the fact that we are already in the war, which we won't win by merely being Democracy’s arsenal,” he said. Bishop Hobson revealed that he had received many letters denouncing him as a “disgrace to the ministry,” but many more people wanted to join the organisation.

COAL PRODUCTION STRIKE SETTLEMENT URGED BY PRESIDENT. WASHINGTON, April 22. President Roosevelt issued a statement saying that the public interest demanded that soft coal production be resumed immediately. Therefore, he recommended that the.northern miners and operators who were already in agreement start work, while the southern operators and miners, who had not yet reached a settlement, should' enter into negotiations and at the same time reopen the mines.