Sharp Swing From Isolationist Sentiment
CAN’T BUILD CHINESE WALL HOUND AMERICA Received Wednesday, 1.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 13. “The convoy controversy is futile because it is possiole convoys will not be sufficient,” said Colonel Knox, Naval Secretary, in the course of his speech (reported on Page 6). “We might be obliged to develop new defences to ensure the arrival of materials in Britain. “Hitler is a maniac whom wo must oppose. I reject isolation or surrender. We cannot build a Chinese wall around ourselves. I have Just visited the isolationist Midwest and I found that sentiment is sharply swinging to aid for Britain.’*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 113, 14 May 1941, Page 7
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