AMERICA’S FEARS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 249, 29 July 1940, Page 5

AMERICA’S FEARS.

DISCOUNTED BY GOERING.

ANOTHER THREAT TO BRITAIN. NEW YORK, July 28. Reichs-Marshal Goering, in an interview with an American journalist (Mr von AViegand), which is published as a copyright article in the Hoarst newspapers, said: “The American fear of invasion seems a strange delusion, as it is militarily impossible to cross a moat of 3000 miles, particularly if America’s armaments are commensurate with tho country’s size and resources. “Our bombers are incapable of flying to tho United States and returning without landing. There is much talk about Greenland as,an air base, but as Colonel Lindbergh, says, it is impossible. I hope the delusion that anyone in Europe contemplates an invasion of the United States will pass away quickly. “I stand by a conversation I had with Mr Sumner AA r ellcs (the United States Assistant-Secretary of State), who visited Europe this year as Mr Roosevelt’s envoy, in which I said that the sound, economic reconstruction-'of tho world was. only possible with America’s cooperation. “The German Air Force is stronger now than at the beginning of the war, and production is still greater than British plus American deliveries.

“My Air Force is completely prepared at the signal from Herr Hitler to attack England. The present attacks arc merelv armed reconnaissance.”

Reichs-Marshal Coering claimed that large supplies of aeroplanes and gasoline were captured in France and the Low Countries.