NEW PLANS TO HELP BRITAIN
Broadcast Today By Mr. Roosevelt LONDON, December 29. Tonight President Roosevelt will make a speech in which he will announce new plans to help Britain and to speed up American defence preparations. That lie will have the support of the great majority of the people is shown by the result of one of the latest polls of public opinion, in which 60 per cent, of voters said they considered it more important to help Britain, even at the risk of the United States being drawn into the war, than to concentrate on keeping out of war. This represents a tremendous change in a few months. Previously the cry was for all aid short of war. Today the American Press strongly supports a flrm policy of aid to Britain. Two leading writers in tiie ScrippsHoward chain of newspapers, hitherto not so definite on war policy, condemn any American who would think of appeasing the Axis Powers. The New York “Herald-Tribune” says that this is the second world war and tliat Germany will attack tiie United States as soon as it suits her. The necessities of the situation permit of no hesitation. On the eve of his speech Mr. Roosevelt is reported to be receiving thousands of telegrams from all over the country urging greater aid for Britain.
Mr. Roosevelt’s boadeast is planned for 2.30 p.m. today (New Zealand time).
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 81, 30 December 1940, Page 8
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