PRESIDENT'S POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1941, Page 9

PRESIDENT'S POLICY

Business Men Approve

(Rec. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Ap. 29. The "Fortune" mazagine re» ported that American, business executives overwhelmingly approve of President Roosevelt's foreign policy and Mr. Willkie's endorsement of it and disapprove of the i opposition voiced by Colonel Lindbergh and Senator Wheeler. This poll of executive opinion, which included almost all the top men in business management, showed that 84 per cent, believed that a German victory should be prevented at almost any cost and 90 per cent, felt that the armament programme must be pressed vigorously forward. Almost half of those who polled were in favour of the development of the defence programme at the expense of "business as usual" and 55 per cent, disapproved of the stand of Colonel Lindbergh and Senator , Wheeler. The War Department announced today that Colonel Lindbergh's resignation as a Reserve Air Corps officer had been accepted. — U.P.A. "He hasn't made any such promise. He has said that he wants peace and if it is possible to stay at peace we will do so, but the ultimate decision ; rests with the people." To another person who said, "Tell the President that we will not give our lives at any place except in ! America," she declared, "Any American who will not fight at any place where his country asks him to'fight is not an. American."—U.P.A.