MR. WILLKIE TO TESTIFY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 7

MR. WILLKIE TO TESTIFY

REQUEST BY MR. HULL

IMPRESSIONS IN BRITAIN

LONDON, February 1.

Mr. Wendell Willkie this morning announced that he would be returning to America in the middle of the coming week. He had received a cable from the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, request* ing him to return to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He stated that he would have liked to visit more industrial centres, in England and also Ireland and Scotland, but was not able to do so.

One of his strong impressions, Mr. Willkie said, was the way in which Britain's air-raid damage was being made good.

Mr. Willkie, interviewed by the "Sunday Dispatch," said: "If ever the Huns attempt an invasion it will be the biggest slaughter in history. Two things will win the war^-mechanical equipment and morale. The British morale is wonderful, while her equipment is the sort of thing we dreamed about in the last war."

Mr. Willkie visited the American Eagle Club and talked with Americans serving in the - Canadian Forces.

He also had a mild clash with a conductress on an omnibus 5 who admonished him for dawdling when boarding tlie bus in a busy street. Mr. Willkie paused to look for the box in which to place his fare, according to the American custom, whereupon the conductress exclaimed: "Now then, sir, either get on or get off." Mr. Willkie paid the fares of his party, which included Press photographers, and then moved from seat to seat, chatting with passengers.