AID FOR BRITAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23772, 27 September 1940, Page 8

AID FOR BRITAIN

OPINION IN AMERICA A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS The opinion that the "vast majority of Americans would not be averse to active participation in the war, should Great Britain bo faced with dire extremity, was expressed yesterday by Mr. Floyd Soto, a representative of a Californian shipping company, who arrived on the Honolulu Clipper from San Francisco. Mr. Soto is on his way to Australia to complete arrangements for the delivery of one of his company's steamers, a vessel of 6000 tons, to the agents of the Siamese Government, which* lias purchased it. The speed-up of American defence measures and the production of war material for Britain had resulted in greatly increased industrial activity in the United States, said Mr. Soto. There had also been a great demand on tonnage as the result of British activitv in the shipping world.The failure of the Germans to make any attempt to invade Britain during the past two months was taken bv American public opinion to indicate that Britain would eventually triumph. Mr. Soto said it was generally accepted in the United States that active intervention by America would be inevitable should there be any likelihood of a. German victory.