ALL-OUT EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 2

ALL-OUT EFFORT

URGED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT j — ! IN SAFEGUARDING DEMOCRACY. j DEFENCE BONDS CAMPAIGN. | (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK. April 30. President Roosevelt, in a speech al the opening of a det'enee bonds and savings stamps campaign, declared: “We are engaged in an allout effort Io perpetuate American democracy by aiding the embattled democracy of the Old World.” He emphasised the need of new and stronger defences as the result of revolutionary changes in military science and said: "Lands safe in 1931 by virtue of mere distance from possible aggressors are now overrun by mechanical conquerors —distance no longer guarantees safety. We are, therefore, multiplying production, for which I frankly appeal for the financial support of the people. It is a privilege to share the cost of defence. We must fight the threat wherever it appears —it can now, be found at the threshold of every American home.”

The Mayor of New York, Mr La Guardia, urging the training of city home guards similar to Britain's A.R.P. organisation, declared: “I do not say that we will get repeated and sustained air attacks like London, but it is our duty to be prepared for the worst.”