AN AMERICAN VIEW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 8

AN AMERICAN VIEW.

"CLOSE TO ENGLAND." The following is an extract of a letter received by M. A. Eliott, Ltd., from their New York correspondents, dated February 24. 1941: "We here are not quite as close to the war as you, because you are British nationals; but we are close to England, and we feel the war quite keenly. We on the Atlantic coast are very anxious to do our part to help the Empire win. Strangely enough, on the west coast the feeling is different. The - do not realise the general menace, for they watch the Japanese and they are more anxious about them. It really makes this a country divided, hut actually we arc united in that we want to protect our own country, and most of us believe that Britain is our first line of defence.

I "Just how much help is going to Britain fa something not one nf us knows. Perhaps more could go to the armies than is leaving from our ports, and perhaps we have been a little slow in getting started. Nevertheless, every day brings us closer to the point where wo will get up steam to make our help of some consequence. "We have many politicians who feel that we should not do what we are doing. T believe that most of them arc thoroughly honest in their views, lint the majority arc anglophile; or. let us put it this way, we had better do our share now or we will have it all to do later on."