LIMITS TO AMERICAN AID.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 45, 3 December 1940, Page 4

LIMITS TO AMERICAN AID.

Attacking the widespread pretence that the United States is giving Britain every aid short of war, an American newspaper executive, Mr Mark Ethridge, reminds the people of the true position under the Neutrality Act. “We cannot,” he points out, “give England any effective help unless she puts up her fast-dwindling supply of gold, unless she comes and gets what she buys, unless she then waits for it to come off of assembly lines geared to peace-time production and unless she then uses her navy to convoy it. It is, then, nothing short of dishonest to go on saying we propose to give England all help short of war if we intend to do nothing about amending the Neutrality Act. No person, no nation, can be secure if he practises self-decep-tion. We never needed the cold, hard truth more than we need ft now. We never needed it more lor the preservation of all our liberties, including the freedom of the press.”