SMASHING OF NAZI STRUCTURE FORETOLD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 5

SMASHING OF NAZI STRUCTURE FORETOLD

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, May 27. With the announcement of the issue of a proclamation of unlimited national emergency, President Roosevelt m his anxiously awaited broadcast has placed the United States on a war basis. Such a state of emergency gives him extremely wide powers to take control of the nation’s industrial and manpower resources to ensure the greatest efficiency for the aimed forces. Commenting on British shipping losses, which he revealed as three times the replacement capacity of British shipyards and twice that of Britain and America combined, the President said that war supplies “can, must and will be delivered. This statement is interpreted as meaning the taking of active steps to circumvent the activities of U-boats and Nazi bombers and ensure goods getting across the Atlantic. He emphasised the importance to America of the doctrine of freedom of the seas and pointed to the peril in which the country and the continent stood as a consequence of the Nazi efforts to expand and widen their bases for attacks. The United States, he said, expected all citizens to play their full part and without doubt their democracy would triumphantly survive.