AIM OF U.S. POLICY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 27 October 1941, Page 5

AIM OF U.S. POLICY

DESTRUCTION OF HITLERISM STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT! RESPONSIBILITY TO BE FACED New York. Oct. 26.' The destruction of the Hitler, menace was the “real and in-! escapable end” of American for-* eign policy, President Roosevelt said in a message to the Foreign Association Forum. He pointed out that in achieving that end America’s responsibility was fully as great as those who were fighting and dying for it. “I know our country will not shrink from that responsibility l or from equal sacrifice when the! critical hour arrives,” he added. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to amend the Ship Arming Bill to remove all l the Neutrality Act restrictions! on the movement of United j States ships into belligerent ports and combat zones. The Administration leaders predict that; the Bill will pass within a fort-| night by at least 55 votes. Mr Roosevelt has created the Office of Facts and Figures to serve as a pool of defence information under the directorship of the Congressional Librarian, Mr Archibald Macleish. Announcing the new tank production programme Mr Roosevelt said it would go far beyond the goal of 2000 tanks a month mentioned by Mr W. S. Knudsen, head of the Office of Production Management. Some new plants would be built, others expanded, and operations would be stepped up. The President said the tank programme was being developed primarily for America’s own armed forces, rather than for lend-and-lease demands. In future, the President said, details of aircraft production would not be published, as such information was valuable to the Axis. The last estimate. that for September, gave the month’s total as 1914 planes. COLONEL KNOX REFERS TO AXIS MENACE Washington. Out. 25.; The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel I Knox, in an article in the “Army and j Navy Journal,” writes: “Our west-! ward Orient is like a vast powder keg—potentially ready to explode [ with a roar that will be hoard all the way across the ocean. I “Only a miracle, seemingly, can ! prevent the collapse of Russian organised military strength and the democracies everywhere are praying I that this miracle will occur. “The Axis troops are more than a l threat in East Africa and on the AfriI can shore just across the Atlantic ; from our land. India and Singapore ! may be next on the Axis list.”— I U.P.A.