AMERICA'S WAR EFFORT

Evening Star, Issue 24481, 16 April 1943, Page 4

AMERICA'S WAR EFFORT

REPLY TO CRITICISM PROTECTING AUSTRALIA AMD NEW ZEALAND NEW YORK, April 14. "There is no question that the United States is doing more than Britain to win the-war, "said Senator A. J. Ellendcr. "We are spending email to protect Britain as well as ourselves." Senator Ellendcr, who -'advocates that the United States .should acquire the British-owned West Indian Islands, was speaking in reply to Captain A. S.^Cunningham-Reid. The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives (Mr Sol Bloom), referring to Captain Cunningham-R.eid's utterances, said that such foolish speeches would destroy the great work the United Nations' leaders were doing to bring the war to an end. Mr Hamilton Fish, a member of the House of Representatives, said he never heard anyone in or out of Congress propose that the United States should absorb Canada; " Australia and New Zealand have become more dependent .on the United States than on Britain," says the columnist, Mr William Philip Simms. " This is uot merely a question of geography, but it concerns man power, national economy, developments in air and sea power, and Japanese imperialism." He says that Australians believe that Japan must bo thoroughly defeated and disarmed, and, abovfe all, the> feel that peace must be maintained throughout the vast Pacific area. The chief responsibility for this will devolve on America. .Mr Simms says tliat Australia's man power is too small to defend the Commonwealth. ' That is. one reason why Australians are looking to America for future stability in the Pacific. • [A cable message from London on April 13 stated that Captain Cunning-ham-Reid, in the House of Commons, contended that a new and more ambitious form of United States isolationism aimed to ; ab\sprb'Canada, take Atlantic '< and .Pacific bases from Britain,* maintain : -a?Pwerfu'l- army and air force after the war, and dominate world air transport and commerce.]