“FIGHT FOR FREEDOM COMMITTEE”

Evening Star, Issue 23865, 21 April 1941, Page 3

“FIGHT FOR FREEDOM COMMITTEE”

USE OF AMERICAN SHIPS URGED NEW YORK, April 19. The formation is announced of a “ Fight for Freedom Committee,” an organisation desiring the United States to act on the theory that the country is already at war, and therefore must use the ‘American shipping, the navy, and the air force to get supplies to the Allies. A committee’ manifesto declares: “ Hitler cannot allow our goods to get to Britain, otherwise he will be beaten. We cannot allow our goods to be sunk in the Atlantic, otherwise we shall be beaten. Thus the problem is simple, and the answer is willingness to do whatever is necessary to ensure Hitler’s defeat. This means accepting the fact that we are at war, whether declared or undeclared. Hitler, regardless of what we do, will attack us when he feels that it is to his advantage. Americans recognise that the war abroad involves our "destiny as much ns it involves the destiny of Britain, Greece, France, China, etc. We recognise that an Axis victory would be a threat to the United States;.thus we have abandoned neutrality, but we are still largely blind to the fact that there is no lasting choice between war and peace. We have for too long left the main burden of winning a victory to other people.” Senator Glass, honorary chairman of the committee, broke his lifetime practice of never lending Ids name to non-governmental committees. The active head is Bishop Heni;v Hobson, and the membership includes many prominent educators, clerics, journalists, and lawyers.