AMERICA & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 16

AMERICA & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

' Would Help Britain If Dictators Attacked

RETIRED OFFICER’S BELIEF

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, April 4. “We will fight alongside Britain if totalitarian States attack her, but we shall not sign any pacts,” said Colonel George Roslington, United States Army, retired, who, with Mrs. Roslington. arrived by the Niagara. “When President Wilson uttered his famous phrase during the Great War, ‘We must make the world safe for democracy,’, he little realised what significance it would have in 1938,” the Colonel said. “Ten years ago it would have been almost treason for an American to say that America would fight against Britain’s aggressors. To-day .it, is generally accepted.” Colonel' Roslington said it was the general belief-in his country that Germany, Italy and Japan represented definite perils to democratic countries such as Great Britain, the United States and Trance.. It seemed to the average American; that unless the democracies of the world bestirred themselves it would be a case of the totalitarian States combining to put an end to democracy. L “Make no mistake about it. I believe we have a full working agreement - with Great Britain,” he added, .“but we shall, have nothing to do with wars that do not concern us. That is the predominant feeling in America today. Most of us believe there is a strong political understanding between the United States and Britain, although no pact has been signed nor will there be one as far as I am able to judge.”’