NO. DEFEATISM

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13670, 18 June 1942, Page 2

NO. DEFEATISM

AMERICA'S SIXIJLE PURPOSE “Nowhere in the United States u there the faintest suggestion of defeatism nor anywhere anything less than complete confidence, matched by equal determination, that the wai will be won. The more the people are asked to do. the higher theii morale rises. And now they are being asked to do far more than anyone could have supposed they would before the Japanese let loose their Blitzkrieg in the Pacific. Thus in one way the disappointments of the past few weeks have been of inestimable advantage. If they have done nothing less, they have made the American people realise that it will be. largely their own choosing whether this is to be an interminable war or whether its prolongation shall be prevented—as undoubtedly it can be —by organising and bringing into action with all speed the enormous latent strength of American Industry and American manpower. There can be no doubt of their choice. Reluctant as they were before they themselves became involved, to engage in war anywhere, throughout the nation now there is only the one purpose: to put everything America has into the fight, and to make no question of where her troops or her supplies are to be sent for the accomplishment of that purpose. Even if they are to be despatched to all four corners of the earth, there will be no holding back of anything.”—London “Times” New York correspondent.