AMERICAN MINISTER ON AID TO BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 5

AMERICAN MINISTER ON AID TO BRITAIN

Fulfilment of Promises to Britain NEEDED FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY OF UNITED STATES QUESTION OF CONVOYING SUPPLIES (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON. April 24. President Roosevelt summoned a “war cabinet’’ consisting of the Secretary of State, Mr Hull, the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, the Secretary of War, Mr Stimson, the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Morgenthau, and Mr Harry Hopkins, thus providing the first opportunity for a full-dress review of the Allied position in Greece and consideration of the next steps for ( ensuring- supplies for Britain. The meeting lasted 90 minutes, and it is believed that tonight’s speeches by Colonel Knox and Mr Hull indicate the results. As Cabinet met, reports circulated in some Congressional circles that 40 per cent of American supplies to Britain are at present being sunk. Colonel Knox, speaking at the annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertising and American Newspaper Publishers in New York, and broadcast on a nation-wide network, strongly indicated that the United States would convoy ships to Britain nnd the Allies Colonel Knox made an utterly realistic objective survey- of world conditions and, referring to the nation’s foreign defence policies, added significantly: “Having gone this far, we can only go on. Hitler cannot allow our war supplies and food to reach England. He will be defeated if they do. We cannot allow our goods to be sunk in the Atlantic. We shall be beaten if we do. We must make good our promise to aid Britain. We must see the job through. All of this is needed for our own safety and our future security.