MAKING OF PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 8

MAKING OF PEACE

MR. LA FOLLETTE'S VIEW

AIRCRAFT DELIVERIES

WASHINGTON, February 3

"I doubt if the English, who have withstood the worst bombing in history and have been offered only American dollars for their, blood and sweat, will worry about America if and when what they think a reasonable peace comes their way," said Mr. Philip La Follette, in the course of his evidence before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. He added that Britain would be wise to make peace when she wanted to, since she would not win "without the help of an American expeditionary force and since no American spokesman would offer such aid."

Senator B. K. Wheeler requested the President to reveal the extent of the aid it was proposed to give to Britain and the extent of the American arms production already diverted to Britain. He asserted that he knew that fivesixths of the fighter planes produced in 1940 went to Britain.

It is officially stated that the export in December of 221 aeroplanes to Britain and 87 to Canada was the second highest total since the outbreak of war and represented a 20 per cent, increase over November.

'The 1940 total of aeronautical exports was worth' 312,000,000 dollars, a 165 per cent, increase over 1939, and 357 per cent, over 1938.

The value of December's aeronautical exports was" 20,000,000 dollars to Britain, 5,000,000 dollars to Canada, and 2,000,000 dollars to Australia.