AID FOR BRITAIN.
WENDELL WILLKIE’S APPEAL. “AN AWFUL CHOICE.” NEW YORK, October 17. The Republican candidate for the Phesidiency (Mr Wendell Willkie), in a campaign speech urging' further immediate aid for Britain, 'said: ’ “Britain is a heroine. The British people stand between America’s free institutions and thle barbaric philosophy of slavery to the State. As we stand here looking eastwards and westwards we find the British people living on the rim of our freedom. Reinforcement of that rim can lib accomplished only by production.” Mr Willkie said America had contributed to the present wo,rid crisis as a- result of the New Deal. America did .not possess the things Britain needed, and had 'no capacity to make those tilings. “We are faced,” he added “with the awful choice of whether to supply Britain or ourselves first.” He favoured helping Britain at some sacrifice of America’s own defence pro'granime. He characterised Mr Churchill as “the most coujrageous and farsighted statesman, in the world.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 7, 19 October 1940, Page 5
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