GOODS NOT MONEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1941, Page 7

GOODS NOT MONEY

AID MUST BE EFFECTIVE

(Received February 12, 1 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, February 11,

! In his evidence before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Willkie said, in regard to the provision of destroyers, that America "should be able to do this directly and swiftly i instead of through a rigmarole of dubil ous legalistic interpretations." While help under the Bill should be limited to the British Commonwealth, Greece, and China, Congress should i retain power to pass upon assistance ! for any other nations which became subjects of aggression. He also urged that there should be a time limit on the Bill, and that Congress should retain power to terminate, by joint resolution, the extraordinary authorities conferred on the President by the Bill. DESIRE FOR UNITY. "I have gone to the full limit of my conscience supporting the Administration's foreign policy because of my great desire for national unity," Mr. Willkie said. "1 have wanted to see America stand united before the world as the friend of all fighting for liberty, as the despiser of all aggressors* and despoilers of the democratic way. It would be truly inspiring for us and for liberty-lovers everywhere if the Bill could be adopted with a non-partisan and almost unanimous vote." Mr. Willkie rejected suggestions that Congress should provide billions of dollars 61 credits. * He said he did not feel that credits alone would provide the effective immediate aid which was necessary. "The problem," he said, "is rather the immediate disposition of certain equipment much of which cannot be purchased because it is owned by the' United States Government. Under domestic laws at present enforced the United States is unable to deliver it." "It cannot be done without cumbersome and lengthy subterfuge. If we are to adopt the policy of aid to Britain it is above all necessary to make the aid effective. Rendering ineffective aid would be disastrous. It would give Hitler just as good a pretext against us as would effective aid, but if our aid is ineffective Britain may go down."