WIDELY APPLAUDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 9

WIDELY APPLAUDED

ROOSEVELT SPEECH

TO BE CLARIFIED

NEW MINISTRY TO BE ESTABLISHED

(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON,

May 28

President Roosevelt intends to clarify his speech at a special Press conference today.

It is learned that the President may soon establish a Ministry of Economic Warfare under his emergency programme.

Mr. Stephen Early, the President's secretary, said that telegrams and letters in response to Mr. Roosevelt's speech have been pouring in all day long, breaking all records for the White House.

Naval experts interpret '.he President's statement that "Britain will get the goods" as a signal for extended operations by the United States navy in ths Atlantic.

The majority of the American newspapers applaud the President's speech and declare it has finally put the United States on a war basis.

The "New York Times" says: "The speech is a call to action and a challenge to Hitler. We are determined to put in the hands of our loyal friends weapons of self-defence."

The "Tribune" says: "Mr. Roosevelt has made it plain that he proposes to wago war against Germany, Italy, and Japan, if he deems it necessary, for the defence of the Western Hemisphere. He has laid down a broad and solid foundation upon which action may and should be taken. That action must now follow."

The "Detroit News'' says: "Mr. Roosevelt has declared war. Now America will discard her selfish ends and work for victory."

Congressmen generally applaud the speech, but isolationists deplore it as a drift to war.

The War Department has notified commanding officers to put all the realism of modern combat, including nerve-racking noises, into training exercises, to toughen the army for the first shock of battle.—U.P.A.