LORD HALIFAX IN MIDDLE WEST
Britain’s War Aims
DEMONSTRATIONS IN CHICAGO
WASHINGTON, May 8.
The British Ambassador, Lord Halifax, last night began a sevenday tour of the middle west. In a speech at Chicago he discussed the objects for which Britain was lighting. He said thej’ were: (1) A system of international stability based on the principles of freedom rather than frontiers.
(2) Economic collaboration among free people.
Lord Halifax emphasized that Britain needed United States supplies. How they were got there was the United States’ own affair. This lU'St question has been the subject of keen debate here. One member of the House of Representatives has moved for the immediate use of the navy and air (force. The “New York Times" and the “New York Herald-Tribune” both support convoys. Placards At Hotel. At Chicago Lord Halifax encountered placards reading: “Send Halifax to Halifax” outside his hotel. Lines o£ women representing anti-war organizations paraded at the Hotel entrance. One banner read: “Remember Dunkirk. Beware of the Double Cross.” Another read: “Drive the British from Washington.”
Police kept the pickets moving, but did not interfere witli their activity.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 191, 10 May 1941, Page 12
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