AMERICA NEXT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1941, Page 11

AMERICA NEXT

IF GERMANY WINS

COL. KNOX'S BELIEF

LINDBERGH CRITICISED

(By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright.) (Received February 1, 12.40 p.m.) • WASHINGTON, January 31. Colonel Knox, throughout his evidence before the Senate.Foreign Affairs Committee, emphasised his belief that if Germany was victorious she would attack the United States as soon as she could accumulate her strength. "We can keep a non-American military Power from our hemisphere only by control of the seas," said Colonel Knox. He described Colonel Lindbergh's proposal for a negotiated peace as wild fancy. During the questioning of Colonel Knox, Senator Guy Gillette asked: "Is it not a fact that American naval strategy has never contemplated a defence of the Philippines?" Colonel Knox replied: "We have admitted its defence to be difficult, but we have never brushed it aside." He attributed the present state of the world to Britain's failure in 1931 to support the United States in sustaining the Nine-Power Treaty, but added that it would be unwise to withhold aid from Britain now because of that earlier incident. Colonel Knox insisted that the Bill will not affect the question of American convoys, since the President already has power to order convoys any time he desires. It is reported from Manila that President Quezon, in a message to the National Assembly, said: "As long as the American flag flies over the Philippines the man-power and resources of the Philippines will be at the disposition of the United States. The defence of our country remains primarily the responsibility of the United States." Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary for State, yesterday declared that an Axis victory would lead to economic and political attacks on South America, followed by a physical invasion of that region. Mr. Welles asked his New York audience: On the record of the j German Government during the past eight years -was it possible to imagine that any peace arrived at under present conditions would be worth the paper it was written on?