AMERICAN ATTITUDE
DISLIKE OF MiTLER NEW ZEALANDER'3 VIEW The opinion that 90 per cent of the American people were anti-Hitler was expressed yesterday by Sir Charles Norwood, of Wellington, who arrived at Auckland by the r With : Lady Norwood, Sir Chnfi'es was on his way to England when war broke out, but the withdrawal of and difficulty in arranging steamer jin-; nections caused him to abandon : his plans. : • Sir Charles said he did not believe that all the people who were antiHitler were pro-Allies. He thought the war would have to come much nearer America before the United States would take part. ; ; There was a large section of the:' public inclined to the view that if President Roosevelt had made it clear that America would not stand for any "gangster form of Government" it might have had a salutary effect on | Hitler when he was looking around for . i; allies. With sncli a pronouncement, it: was felt that Hitler would have realised that it was not worth carrying on the war with such .1 slight chance of victory.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23491, 31 October 1939, Page 8
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