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FOR AND AGAINST

OPINION IN UNITED STATES PRESIDENT PRAISED & BLAMED PREDICTIONS OF NATIONAL SUPPORT. WITH SOME DISCORDANT UTTERANCES. WASHINGTON, August 14. High praise for the Churchil-Roose-velt declaration comes from the Administration supporters. Mr Andrew May, of the House of Representatives, said: “To my mind it represents a turning point in the history of the world.” Mr Adolph J. Sabath, House of Representatives, said: “It is a wonderful agreement by which Britain is willing to forgo any gains.” Mr Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “The statement crystalises the aims and aspirations on which all freedom-loving people are so closely joined.” Senator Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated: “The declaration embodies the principles of a noble and lofty conception with which I feel sure the people of the United States will agree.” 1

Discordant, disapproving views are also voiced.

Senator McCarran declared: “The statement is based on the unwarranted assumption that the United States is a belligerent. It is tantamount to a declaration of war which is the province of Congress.”

Governor Worth Clark, an isolationist, said: “It is very significant that cur foreign policy is released from London on the radio rather than from the United States.” Senator Brooks said he considered “the statement sounds very like a pre-' liminary bid for peace, which the majority of the American people will welcome provided it is genuine and not a camouflage moving us into war.” The New York “Mirror" said: “President Roosevelt has committed this nation to a military alliance aimed at the final destruction of Nazi tyranny.” Senator Walsh, chairman of the Senate Naval Committee, said: “The declaration commits the United States to full partnership with Britain to the bitter end. It is a commitment far beyond the President's constitutional powers.” CLOSER RELATIONS EMPIRE & UNITED STATES. FORESEEN BY CANADIAN PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) OTTAWA, August 14. The Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, said the meeting was bound to have a very important effect on world opinion. It could lead only to even closer relations in the future between the British Empire and the United States. The text indicated a complete understanding and co-operation in the prosecution of the war, and complete agreement on the eventual objects of a peace of victory but not of vengeance.

DEEP IMPRESSION

MADE ON FREE BELGIANS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 14. The joint declaration by President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill has made a deep impression in Belgian Government circles in London, where it has been received with the greatest satisfaction. Official Belgian circles state that it is extremely important that the solemn agreement on such principles between Britain and the United States should have been made, for this has emphasised the solidarity which unites them and unites all the nations which are fighting for the cause of liberty not only in the waging of the war but also in the organisation of peace.

AXIS NOTIONS

VICHY JOINS IN CHORUS OF DETRACTION.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 15.

The Axis mouthpieces took some time to decide how to deal with Mr Attlee’s statement.

The Berlin news agency finally issued a very brief statement saying that President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill had met on the high seas and agreed on an eight-point war statement, the highlight of which was the disarmament of the Axis Powers. The Berlin radio, in an overseas transmission, said the declaration was obviously nothing but a means of helping England and America to overcome the embarrassment caused by the present military situation. The Vichy news agency stated that the declaration was an insufficient assurance of peace and justice and simply refurbished the Wilsonian doctrine, which experience ■ had shown was insufficient.

The Stefani (Italian) agency says Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt seemingly accounted for all eventualities except one whose importance cannot have escaped them, namely, the possibility of an Axis victory. The Japanese newspaper “Kokumin” said the Churchill-Roosevelt statement, was the last struggle of the status quo nations. The reckless attitude of the British and Americans would only push the situation into a dangerous stage. America’s folly for playing into Britain’s hands was laughable. The statement would serve as the turning point for an intensified Axis offensive,

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 5

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FOR AND AGAINST Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 5

FOR AND AGAINST Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 5

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