APPLAUDED IN U.S.A.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1941, Page 5

APPLAUDED IN U.S.A.

CHURCHILL’S BROADCAST

WITH SOME ISOLATIONIST

DISSENT.

NEW HOPE FOR ENSLAVED PEOPLES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON. August 25. The I'liiied Press of America says .Administration supporters applauded Mi' Cliurchill’s speech, particularly the warning to -Japan, hut the isolationist. Senator Wheeler, claimed tli.H it was designed to frighten the I'nited Slates into the idea that “we have to get into the-war now or else Hiller will gel us.”

Unofficial sources interpreted Mr Churchill's pledge that Great Britain would stand by the side of the United States in the event of trouble in the Pacific as one of the most sweeping i British commitments to American Far East policy. Senator Wheeler, referring to the foregoing, said: "We do not need help from Britain or anybody else. We are able to take care of ourselves." The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr Sol Bloom, said Mr Churchill had given new hope to the conquered nations and enslaved peoples. Surely no one. he added, would doubt the real purpose of the principles of the eight-point charter conceived by Mr Roosevelt and Mr Churchill. ANGER IN JAPAN “UNION JACK’S SINISTER DESIGN.” CHARGES AGAINST BRITAIN. (Received Thsi Day, 10.45 a.m.) TOKIO. August 25. The "Kokumin Shirnbun” described Mr ChurchiP.'s broadcast as the Union Jack's sinister design to cause worldwide disturbances. It also charged Britain with propagandising the Japanese advance into Thailand to lead the United States to take a hand in the southward issue.