“NOT CHARITY”

Evening Star, Issue 23991, 16 September 1941, Page 7

“NOT CHARITY”

AMERICAN AID TO AXIS. ENEMIES PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS SANGER OF TOTALITARIAN DOMINATION REALISED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Rec. 12.23 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. President Roosevelt reported to Congress to-day that since the passage of the Lend and Lease Act American weapons supplied to nations fighting the Axis to August 31 totalled 324,563,000 dollars, including repairs to naval vessels (78,169,000), and material awaiting shipment (35,946,000). The expenditure for articles and services not yet finished totalled 162,000,000 dollars. The message said: “The people of the United States realise that there can be no real peace and no secure freedom until we have destroyed the evil forces whiqh seek to work us woe. We are not furnishing this aid as an act of charity. We offer it because we know that piecemeal resistance to aggression is doomed to failure because the ruthless war machine which now bestrides the continent of Europe can be combated only the combined efforts of all free peoples, and at all strategic points where the aggressor may strike.” President 1 Roosevelt concluded; “ Planes, tanks, guns, and ships have begun to flow from the factories and yards, and the flow will accelerate day by day until the stream becomes a river and the river a torrent, engulfing this totalitarian tyranny which seeks to dominate the world.” AMERICAN MACHINE GUNS

TEN FACTORIES OH PRODUCTION WASHINGTON, September 14. The War-Department announces that 10 machine-gun factories which were required to fill immediate requirements are completed and have begun production. , _ The ‘ New York Times ’ says this indicates that industry is emerging from the machine tool stage. Hr Walter Fuller, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, issued a statement declaring that mass production had become a reality, and 98 per cent, of the firms holding defence orders had begun actual production. CHINA CONFIDENT FAITH IN U.S. POLICY THE CONVERSATIONS WITH JAPAN (ißcc. 12.25 p.m. CHUNGKING. Sept. 15. After conferring; with the American Ambassador (Mr Gauss), Mr Quo Taichi said he was confident the United States would not deviate from its Far Eastern policies consistently and faithfully observed in the past. The United States not only had no intention of making any arrangement at China’s expense, but China would be fully consulted. Therefore China awaited the outcome of the Washington-Tokio conversations with calm confidence. STRONGLY PRO-BRITISH NEW YORK NEWSPAPER MAGNATE (Rec 12,5 p.m.) CHICAGO, Sept. 15. Mr Marshall Field, majority stockholder in the New York paper ‘ P.M.,’ announced his intention of establishing a new morning newspaper to support tho Administration’s foreign policy. He is strongly pro-British. PLANS FOR CENSORSHIP AMERICAN ARMY AND NAVY (Rec. 12.40 p.m.' WASHINGTON, September 15. Mr Forrestal, Acting Secretary of .the Navy in a letter to Mr Vinson (chairman of the House Naval Committee), disclosed that joint army and navy plans had been prepared for the censorship of international communications, which would be limited to control of communications passing between the United States and foreign countries or overseas and between ships and the shore. There will be no provision for a compulsory Press censorship. THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 15. While the Nazi Luftwaffe ruthlessly pounds the city of Leningrad by tho sheer weight of a mass air attack to reduce it to submission, it is recalled here that to-day is the anniversary of the record destruction .of German machines by the R.A.F. in the Battle of Britain. Twice on Sunday, September 15, 1940, huge masses of planes crossed the Channel for the last throw for air victory, and 185 of them were sent crashing to the earth. One description at the time said that England was Uttered with the wrecks of German machines. The result was that the climax of the Battle of Britain had been reached. Senseless terror raids on London continued with even greater ferocity, but the legend of the invincibility of Goerings’s air force, so assiduously fostered by Nazi propaganda, had been shattered. The first Allied victory of the war had been convincingly won by the R.A.F.