"FEARFUL DANGER"

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 108, 9 May 1941, Page 7

"FEARFUL DANGER"

AMERICA'S ONLY HOPE

HELP FOR BRITISH NAVY

GUARDING CONVOYS

WASHINGTON, May 8. '' „. The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, in a speech at a booksellers' banquet, said: ."All , American resources are committed ' to the supreme purposes of ensuring that British sea power is not destroyed. ' "We are living in fearful danger. Our only safety is to supplement Britain's forces because failure to maintain the bridge of ships to Britain would mean that we would eventually face an immeasurably superior combination of the Italian, German, and ■ French navies and also have to guard

against Japan in the Pacific. Oceans are not bulwarks but avenues of attack." ;■...'. Commentators point out that this is the first official reference to the possibility of Germany' using the French navy. x "LESS TALK, MORE ACTION." ,r Mr. Wendell Willkie, addressing a freedom rally at Madison Square Garden, said: "I care not whether you call it safe delivery, convoying, patrolling, aeroplane accompaniment, or what not. We want those cargoes" protected at once, with less talk and more action. , "There is no reason for despair. The British still control the seas and can draw on the world's resources. Furnish Britain with the ships she needs till it hurts. Give her destroyers, arid see that those ships deliver their cargoes safely to British ports."

Mr. Willkie telegraphed President Roosevelt urging him, as the leader-of a free people, to execute their will and provide the machines and materials so sorely needed for the defence of. freedom.—U.P.A.