AMERICA'S ATTITUDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 7

AMERICA'S ATTITUDE

IF BRITAIN IS ATTACKED

A WIDELY-ACCEPTED VIEW

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND,1 April 4.

"We will fight alongside Britain if totalitarian States attack her, but we shall not sign any pacts," said Colonel George J Boslington, United States .Artny, 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. Today 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 France. 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. "Make no mistake about it. L believe we have a full working 'agreement with Great -Britain," he added, "but we shall have nothing td.ido 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." ' '