POLICY OUTLINED BY WILLKIE

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23132, 23 September 1940, Page 8

POLICY OUTLINED BY WILLKIE

Foreign and Home

Programme

SIX POINTS GIVEN

(r.N-ITED PHEiS ASSOCIATION COPTP.IOHT.) (Received September 23, 12.30 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO. September 22. The Republican candidate for the United States Presidency (Mr Wendell Willkie) announced a six-point foreign and domestic policy. He said that Mr Roosevelt must “bear a direct share of the responsibility for the present war” because he bad not followed such a pro-

gramme. Outlining his programme he said: “'ll We must keep sending aid to Britain, our first line of defence and only remaining friend, , “(2) In the Pacific our best ends can be served by a strong, free, and democratically progressive China and we should render economic assistance to that end. . . “(3) We must have an impregnable defence system. . , . “fd.) We must revise industry. “(5) There must be a‘wise use of credits and economic agreements. “(6) We'must explore, and develop Pacific air bases.”

VALUE OF FREE

ELECTIONS

DANGER OF MINORITY

CONTROL

MR ROOSEVELT’S WARNING

(Received September 22, 7 p.m.)

PHILADELPHIA, September 20.

“Mr Roosevelt, in a speech said; “I regret to say that even to-day there are demands for the return of government to the control of those few who, because of their business ability or economic omniscience, are supposed to be just a touch above the average of our citizens.

“The great danger is that once a government falls into the hands of a few of the elite the curtailment or even the abolition of free elections might be adopted as a means of keeeping them in power. Free elections mean the enduring safety of our form of government. No dictator in history has dared to run the gauntlet of a really free election.”

Mr Roosevelt said that the Germans despaired of their democracy and listened to th.e new cult of Nazism in which the minority offered “bread and shelter and better government by the rule pf a handful of people who had a special aptitude for government, but making no mention of the abolition of free elections. Many, people in large businesses, dissatisfied with the democratic' system, formed political and economic alliances with this group. You and I know the subsequent history of Germany. The right of free elections was suddenly wiped out by the new regime.’*

NAVAL BASE AT

HAWAII

EXPENDITURE BY U.S.

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(Received September 22, 9 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, September 21

The United States Secretary for the Navy (Colonel F. Knox) told journalists that Hawaii would become one of the great military bastions of the world. At present the United States was expending 80.000,000 dollars there, which would make it one of the world’s most efficient and most compact armed bases. Pearl Harbour alone was a unique base. There was plenty of room for a fleet twice tbe size of the present United States Fleet.

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BUY SPITFIRES

(BRITISH /OmCIAL WIRELESS.)

RUGBY, September 21. Residents of Edmonton. Canada, have Cabled to Edmonton, South London, asking for the privilege of co-operat-ing in the Londoners’ Spitfire fund. The offer has been warmly welcomed. Edmonton in Kentucky, United States, and the Australian Edmonton will, it is anticipated, also participate in the fund.