Britain Must Have Weapons to Fight With

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 97, 24 April 1941, Page 7

Britain Must Have Weapons to Fight With

AMERICANS MUST KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING (British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, April 22. The task of Americans in London was to help win the war in the shortest possible time by letting friends and associations in the United States know exactly what was happening in Britain, the American Ambassador (Mr. VVinant) told an audience of American businessmen to-day. In a ddition to businessmen, nearly every American organisation in Britain was represented in the audience, including the American Eagle Squadron, the American Ambulance and the American Motorised ) Squadron. “There are two ways,” said Mr. Winant, “in which American businessmen in England can help and are helping. This war has already demonstrated man for man the superiority of the soldiers of freedom over the soldiers of oppression wherever there has not been an overwhelming inferiority of mechanical equipment. You can all ensure that the best American and British experience is utilised to increase and speed up the construction of the tool* necessary to win the war in the shortest possible time. ** Secondly, most of you here are much more acutely aware of the realities of this war than your business associates find friends in America. You know what this war means, not only to England and to the subjugated peoples of Europe but to America and to you;* children and mine. What America requires is not propaganda but understanding. That means they xnust now understand the facts. You can do much to help England understand American problems, and you can do much to help America understand the needs and problems of those who now give their full measure of devotion that freedom may not perish from the earth.”