"WAR INEVITABLE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 3

"WAR INEVITABLE"

FEELING IN U.S.A.

RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN

"There is a widespread feeling inj America tKat war with those nations who are threatening the peace of Europe is. inevitable, and some- people feel that it would have been as well to have got it ovef and done with when the recent crisis occurred," said Mr. W. Nicola (Nicola the Great), in! an interview with "The Post" today. "Of course, England may not have! been ready * and when this war does come we want to win it," he added "There as no doubt that if any real trouble came along the United States and Britain would stand together, but the man in the street in America today is inclined to remember that-Eng-land has defaulted in her debt pay-! ments to us. Some people confuse the debts I am .referring to with war debts, but war debts were all cancelled years ago. The debts about which complaint is made were incurred /after the war. It would have been all right even had the token payments been kept up.. If a man owes you a pound and pays you sixpence you at least feel that he is trying to pay. FREQUENT? QUESTION. "'lf war breaks out will we be on England's side?' was a question often asked in the United States at the time of the crisis, and often the answer would be, 'England got us to lend her money for the last war, refused to give us any credit for what we did when we came to her assistance, and now wants us to pay for another war.'; "Perhaps it is not wise to bring the subject up again, but I'think that in the interests of Anglo-American relations it was a great pity that .King Edward VIII abdicated. He was thought a tremendous lot of in America and the American people were deeply disappointed when he left the Throne. "There is not the least doubt, however, tliat if war does come all these little differences will be forgotten and America and Britain will stand side by side." '