FESTIVITY FOREGONE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 111, 4 February 1941, Page 6

FESTIVITY FOREGONE

American Buys Ambulance For Britain “It is hard to convey how very keenly many Americans are interested in. the war on the side of England,” said Mr. Edmund Anscombe, Wellington, who returned last month from a visit to . the United States. “To me it was most heartening, particularly as some months before I had known that the country was being bombarded _ with propaganda from Berlin. Even in my brief stay one could sense the growing of the feeling among the Americans I met, as they became convinced that England was actually America s first line of defence. “I will tell you one incident,’-’ said Mr. Anscombe, “which will convey the depth of that feeling as much as anything. While I was in New York I came in contact With a man whose friend, a very well-to-do citizen, was about to celebrate his silver wedding on a scale of lavishness not unusual with Americans. That celebration did not come off, I was told. Instead of entertaining his friends with a great spread, the man in question decided to devote the money his jubilee spree would have cost to the purchase of an ambulance for Britain. That is how deeply some ot the Americans arc plumping for Britain.”