MR. WINANT ON HIS MISSION

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 116, 10 February 1941, Page 8

MR. WINANT ON HIS MISSION

Linking Democracies MR. WILLKIE’S RUSH TRIP

(Received February 9, 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 8. The United States AmbassadorDesignate to London, Mr. Winant, said he would probably depart for England in the middle of the month by plane. He said he thought that eventually the United States must cqllaborate on a wider scale with the other democracies —wider, than merely England and the United States. He declined to elaborate this point.

Mr Wiuaiit recalled that he had visited England often and knew most of the members of the present Government. His first visit to London was before the World War to study Mr. Lloyd George's social programme. He was still very much interested in social improvements. Asked if he hoped to be useful to the labouring classes during his London mission, Mr. Winant replied that he hoped to be useful to all the people of both countries. Pan-American Airways announces that the Dixie Clipper, will) Mr. Willkie on board, landed al Port of Spam at 9.51 a.in. today, completing the 31-0-mile non-stop flight from Bolama in 21 hours 32 minutes. This is the longest non-stop flight ever made by a commercial plane. Mr. Hopkins Returning To U.S. Reports from Lisbon state that President Roosevelt’s personal envoy to England, Mr. Hopkins, has arrived there from London. He visited many parts of Britain, talked with representative people, and was admitted to the innermost secrets of the nation’s defence. Addressing a graduating class at the naval academy at Annapolis, the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, said :— “You are entering the navy under the shadow of another irreconcilable conflict. Unless we emulate embattled Britain and say that we would rather die fighting the tyrant than live under him, we shall not have achieved the spiritual attitude of the true defender of American institutions. The world has been given an inspiration by the example of the British people.” He said that the graduates must expect to be called on to .make sacrifices in defence of the nation. Senator Wheeler has requested President Roosevelt to facilitate a Senatorial inquiry into foreign patent control of vital American war materials if he is “so anxious about, discovering who is aiding Germany.”