Help From U.S.A.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 8

Help From U.S.A.

PRIME MINISTER'S COMMENT

Position in Pacific

"President Roosevelt's inspiring statement wilMiearten every Believer in democracy throughout the world," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser), when commenting today on Mr. Roosevelt's broadcast address. "He has performed a magnificent service in stating the issues so clearly and in calling for a realistic attitude among his people towards the menace which threatens the American continent as closely as'it does every other region. The influence of the United States, with its vast resources, is to be thrown with still greater vigour on to the side of the British Commonwealth, and with the aid of this 'great arsenal of democracy' victory over the aggressor nations is doubly assured.

"We in New Zealand have particular cause to be thankful for American policy as defined by the President. His words provide a powerful contribution towards our own security in the Pacific, and enable us, with full confidence, to concentrate our whole energies upon the struggle in the main theatres of war.

"Mr. Roosevelt has replied to the, clumsy threats of the Axis Powers against the United States in the only possible way, by making it abundantly clear that they have succeeded, not in in--1 timidating the American people, but in strengthening still further their determination to give ever increased material aid to those at grips with the bullies. His repudiation of the idea of appeasing ruthlessness and his bold indictment of Nazism are moral blows shrewdly and powerfully delivered.

"The timely aid which the United States has rendered so far, and the promise of vast supplies and speedy deliveries," concluded the Prime Minister, "have earned the sincere and lasting gratitude of all the peoples of the British Commonwealth."

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