INTEREST IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 6

INTEREST IN BRITAIN

PRESIDENT’S OUTSPOKEN DENUNCIATION OF LYING AND AGGRESSION BY NAZIS. DANGER TO UNITED STATES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, July 21. Great interest has been taken in this country in President Roosevelt’s Message to Congress asking for the declaration of ?. full or limited nation?.! emergency as a means of retaining conscripts and National Guardsmen on active service for the duration of the emergency.

Interest specially centred on two points of the Message—first, that the danger confronting the United States was “infinitely greater” than a year ; ago, and second that the menace with which the United States was faced originated from Germany and Nazi Party aspirations. President Roosevelt said the nation must prepare to defend the entire Western Hemisphere. “I must refer again,” he said, “to the sequence of conquests—German conquests or attacks, which have continued uninterruptedly throughout several years—all the way from the coup against Austria to the campaign against Russia. Every move up and down and across Europe and into Asia and into Africa has been conducted to a time schedule, utilising in every case an overwhelming superiority, not only in material but in trained men.”

The President' stressed the point that any present weakening of the United States Army would be an “act of bad faith toward our neighbours—namely, Latin America.” Each campaign had been based on a preliminary assurance of safety or non-aggression to the intended victim. Each campaign had been based on disarming, fear, or gaining time until the German Government was fully ready to throw treaties and pacts to the winds and simultaneously to launch an attack in overwhelming force. “Each elimination of a victim,” said Mr Roosevelt, “brought the issues of Nazi domination closer to this hemisphere, while month by month their intrigues of propaganda and conspiracy sought to weaken every link in the community of interest that should bind the Americas into a great Western family.”