CHANGE OF OUTLOOK
AMERICAN PEOPLE
ATTITUDE TO WAR
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, December 29,
When Sir Walter Layton returned the other day from a mission on behalf of the Ministry of Supply in the United States he 4 spoke of the impression made upon him by evidence gained during the visit of the change that country had undergone in its attitude to the war.
Events of the last nine months had exposed Hitlerism in its naked evil, arousing deep instincts of chivalry in a people to many of whom a year and more ago the issues at stake on this side of the Atlantic wer^ remote and indefinite. These events also left Americans in no doubt that the call to defend the way of life and the values they cherish might sound suddenly and soon if Hitler were not held in check by the continuing resistance of Britain. The American spirit never accepted menace to itself tamely, nor suffered wrong to others in silence.
In an article contributed to a London Sunday newspaper a leading American newspaper proprietor observes how, before the subjugation of France and the Lowlands, most Atneri-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 8
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