AMERICAN MISSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1941, Page 4

AMERICAN MISSION

DEE SHORTLY IN CAIRO SURVEY FOR POSSIBLE LANDING. AND ACTION TO FACILITATE FLOW OF SUPPLIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 1. A United States military mission is due in Cairo in a fortnight and is expected to make surveys for the possible landing of an American expeditionary force in Africa, says the Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. This does not mean.that such action has been decided upon. The mission’s aim will be to ascertain possible camp sites and climatic and hygienic conditions. It will be followed by hundreds of American civil and military technicians in connection with the vast programme in Africa under the Lease-Lend Act. American activity includes not only facilitating an increase in supplies but the maintenance of American tanks and -aeroplanes. DEFENSIVE OUTLOOK VIEWS OF DR. GALLUP. NEW YORK, October 31. Dr. George Gallup, founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, in a speech to the Canadian Advertisers’ Convention today, said that America’s attitude toward the war was entirely within the framework of defence. Any thought of offence was not considered. “All-out aid to Russia and England, yes,” said Dr. Gallup, “but no large .expeditionary force to Europe. s “Two out of three people in the United States believe it was wrong of the United States to enter the last war.” Dr. Gallup said that though they do not desire to get any more into war than they are now, 80 per cent of Americans firmly believe that the United States will be in before it Is over.