CLEAR WARNING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 11

CLEAR WARNING

AMERICAN NATION ARMY OF AGGRESSORS ASSAULT INTENDED EUROPE’S EXPERIENCE DEFENCE NEEDS URGED (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Pvcss Assn.) \ (Reed. Oct. 22. 2.15 p.m.) CHICAGO, Oct. 21. The United States Ambassador to France, Mr. W. C. Bullitt, in a broadcast address said: “If ever a clear warning was given to a nation that three aggressors contemplated a future assault upon it, that warning was given to the American people by the recent-ly-announced agreement ' signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy and Japan. “Experience in Europe has taught us that to try to appease the totalitarian. dictator is useless. We know that many have tried and have been destroyed. We do not intend to try.

“Faced with such a threat the most urgent task is increasing the armed forces, especially the .air force.” Mr. Bullit urged every American to do the utmost to increase the production of arms and planes. He cited many Americans who honestly believed that the oceans, plus the strongest fleet in the world, provided a guarantee of safety and said: “They forget that if England succumbs the shipbuilding capacity of the yards which the dictators already control, plus that of Britain would provide six times the capacity of ours.” The good-neighbour policy had resulted in ' the greatest hemispheric solidarity in history, but in many South American States there were strong secret Nazi movements which, if they gained control, would invite the Germans to enter, after which dive-bombers would get through to the Panama Canal as they got to London, said Mr. Bullit.