NAZI AGGRESSION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 197, 22 July 1941, Page 5

NAZI AGGRESSION

NEXT MOVE IN EUROPE

WASHINGTON WARNING. LONDON, July 21. The Assistant - Secretary of State (Mr Sumner Welles), in a statement at Washington to-day, declared that the United States had received information that Germany was planning a new aggression against the remaining independent States of Europe.

Mr Welles gave no further information, however. He promised American aid to Bolivia in suppressing Axis influence.

.Replying to General Franco's recent attack cm America, Mr WeJJes denied thp contention of the Spanish dictator that tlie offer of supplies was conditional on Spain carrying out the will of other nations; the only condition was that Spain remain at peace. General Franco, lie added, quoting from the New York Post, appeared to be being used as the spearhead of Axis aggression* against Latin America.

President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress to-day. referred to the grave situation and said the*Government was fully aware of the schemes and plans against the safety of the United Slates. So serious was the position that tile safety of the country was gravely imperilled.

iliach new Axis victory, said the President, brought the threat of Nazi domination nearer the Western Hemisphere. “Time counts,” he concluded, “flic responsibility rests with Congress.”

Mr Roosevelt declared the need of the continuance of the state of emergency.

the first contingent of American troops lias arrived in British Guiana to occupy the base granted to the United States under the recent agreement.

Both the American Ambassador (Mr J. C. Wi.uant) and President Roosevelt's personal representative (Mr llarry Hopk.ns) talked with Mr Eden at the Foreign Ofiice to-day.

PLAIN SPEAKING

PRESIDENT REBUFFS NAZIS.

(Ree. 11. JO a.m.) RUGBY, July 21. Great interest has been taken in this country m President Roosevoli s message to Congress asking lor a declaration of full or limited national emergency ias a means oi retaining conscripts and National Guardsmen on active service lor the duration of the emergency. Interest is specially centred on two points of the message—first, that tile danger confronting the United States was “infinitely greater” than a year ago and, second, that the menace with which the United States was faced originated from Germany and the Nazi Party aspirations.

Mr Roosevelt said the nation must prepare to defend the entire Western Hemisphere and said plainly that the menace which the United States faced originated from Germany and the Nazi party aspirations. “I must refer again,” he said, “to the sequence of conquests—German conquests or attacks which have continued uninterruptedly throughout several years—all the way from the coup against Austria to the campaign against Russia. Every move up and down and across Europe, and into Asia, and into Africa, lias been conducted according to a time schedule utilising in every case overwhelming superiority, not only in material, but in trained men.”

The President stressed the point that any present weakening of tho United States army would be an “act of bad faith toward our neighbours—namely, Latin America.”

Each campaign iiad been based on a preliminary assurance of safety or non-aggression to the intended victim ; each campaign had been based on disarming, fear, or gaining time until the German Government was fully ready to throw treaties and pacts to the winds and simultaneously launch an attack in overwhelming force. Each elimination of a victim brought the issues of Nazi domination closer to this hemisphere, while month by month their intrigues of propaganda and conspiracy sought to weaken every link in the community of interest that should hind the Americas into a great Western family.—Official Wireless.

AMERICA’S MISSION.

KEEPING BRITAIN ARMED

VIRTUALLY AT WAR

RUGBY, July 20. Mr Raymond Gram owing, the famous American commentator, iu a broadcast speech, said: “there are three kinds of modern war: There is the ideological war, there is the shooting war, and there is the industrial war. Tins war is all three.

j “If it were not an ideological war for individual human freedom it would have been over long ago. Next in imi porta nee is tilts industrial war. Toe | Battle of France was won hv machines and by relatively few men. The Nazis | had live years’ start in piling -up majchines of war. Till that supremacy is [ levelled off and surpassed the Nazis j will he unbeatable. The shooting war I really conies into its importance when : the supremacy in machines has been I achieved. 1 “The United States is in two of those I wars. It is in tlic ideological war. In fact one ol the iirst guns in this war was fired h.v America when it withdrew its Ambassador from Berlin as a protest against the persecution of the Jews. Nobody has spoken more eloquently and convincingly about the ideological meaning of the war than President Roosevelt and the same faith is deeply embedded in American hearts. “The great transformation which I came over the United Stales was when we entered the industrial war and entered it for the duration. We set about to produce weapons with which Hitler should bo beaten. We found a way to supply them to you which cut through all the difficulties of the Neutrality Act. Now we are accepting it that this course will affect a change in. indeed revolutionise, our national and economic life. BROUGHT TO BRINK.

“Mr Harry Hopkins, who is in charge of executing ‘.he lend or lease | policy, and who is -probably the elos- j est friend and adviser of the Presi- 1 I dent, is here and has given you a re-j freshing summary of what America is ito supply in weapons, shifts and food. He speaks with unique knowledge of | that programme.. He told you that the goods will he delivered. “This problem brings us to the brink ! ;of the shooting war. Hitler lias pro- 1 mised to sink any ship bringing aid to j Britain. President Roosevelt has pro-! mised that the supplies will be delivered. At first it was hoped that the extension of the Atlantic patrols would safeguard shipping. Nqw*a much more drastic step lias been taken in the occupation of Iceland. Piesident Roosevelt has ordered that the lines of communication to Iceland be kept open. If j Hitler tries to close them there will he | shooting by Americans. If he does not

the Atlantic crossing will bo safe up to the last 800 miles. “Hitler has to choose between a shooting war with the United States and losing the Battle of the Atlantic. That is where the poliev of the American Government has brought us.”— Official AVireless.