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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21208, 3 September 1940, Page 4

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UNITED STATES PRESS "SUPPLIES NOT ENOUGHVISITOR’S SPEECH APPLAUDED (By Telegraph.—special to Times) AUCKLAND, Monday “It is not enough to furnish supplies and moral support, sooner or later we have to furnish manpower. It is essential that that moustache be shaved,’’ said Mr Thomas H. Beck, of New York, publisher of Collier’s Weekly, in an address at a State dinner held at the Grand Hotel in honour of the American party that arrived by the Clipper. “I sincerely believe that before very much longer the people of the United States are going to realise the necessity of going to war themselves,” said Mr Beck. His speech was warmly applauded. The United States’ resources in mass production were useless without manpower, Mr Beck said. “That is why the press of the United States is practically unanimous for conscription, from 18 to 64,” he declared. "We have to conscript everybody so that we can take old and young and put them into the jobs they are best suited for. This is the last stand, but we have one ace in the hole, and that ace is mass production. “Democracy is making its last stand in this world today, and we must leave no stone unturned to save our freedom of press, thought and action,” Mr Beck added. “I have seen and I know what Nazism means and what it would mean.”