MAXIMUM AID

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24326, 17 June 1940, Page 7

MAXIMUM AID

AMERICA ANSWERS SUPPLIES FOR ALLIES ENCOURAGING MESSAGE PRESIDENTS PLEDGE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) LONDON, June 15. (Received June 16. at 8.10 p.m.) A Washington message states that President Roosevelt sent the following message to the French Prime Minister (M. Reynaud): I am sending you this reply to your message of yesterday, which I am sure you will realise has received the most earnest and the most friendly study on our part. First of all, let me reiterate the ever-increas-ing admiration with which the American people and their Govefn-

ment are viewing the resplendent courage with which the French Armies are resisting the invaders of French soil. I wish also to reiterate in most emphatic terms' that, making every possible effort under the present conditions, the Government of the United States has made it possible for the Allied armies to obtain during the weeks just passed aeroplanes, artillery and munitions of many kinds and this Government, as long as the Allied Governments \contiriue to resist, will redouble its efforts in this direction. I believe it is possible to say that every week which goes by will see additional material on the way to the Allied nations. In accordance with its policy not to recognise the results of conquest of territory acquired by military aggression, the United States will not consider valid any attempt to infringe by force the independence and territorial integrity of France. In these hours, which are so heart-rending for the French people and yourself, I send you assurances of my utmost sympathy and I can further assure you that so long as the French people continue the defence of their liberty, which constitutes the cause of popular institutions throughout the world, so long will they rest assured that material supplies will be sent them from the United States in ever-increasing quantities and kinds. I know you will understand that these statements carry with them no implication of military commitments. Only Congress can make such commitments. a . ■ The President of Brazil (Dr Vargas) assured President Roosevelt that “Brazil will not fail him” in loyalty to the common purpose of protecting the western hemisphe® against foreign influences and attack^ Dr Vargas expressed regret that his recent speech was interpreted in some quarters as contradictory to the principles that President Roosevelt ‘enunciated in his Charlottesville speech pledging aid to the Allies. Gratitude in Britain President Roosevelt’s generous response to M. Reynaud’s appeal has been received with sincere gratitude by the British people. Especially welcome is his assurance that as long as the Allied Governments continue to resist the forces threatening the free institutions of the world the United States Government, for its part, will redouble its efforts to send aeroplanes and munitions to assist in the struggle, ■% GERMAN CHAGRIN A DIPLOMAT’S WARNING TALK OF “NEW EMPIRE * WASHINGTON, June 15. A New Orleans message states that the German Consul-General (Baron Edgar von Spiegel) said that Germany would not forget that when she was fighting for her life the United States gave every material aid to her .enemies. He predicted that, the United States “ may beg for trade and commerce with the new empire and get none.” A Topeka message states that, surprisingly. in view of his previous public accord with the idea of the Administration giving aid to the Allies short of war. Senator Landon issued a statement in which he condemned President Roosevelt’s speech at Charlottesville as “ a course taken on his own responsibility, that is in the direction of a war for which the nation is utterly unprepared and to which a vast majority of the people are opposed.”