THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES Wednesday, July 30, 1941. TOOLS OF VICTORY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24672, 30 July 1941, Page 4

THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES Wednesday, July 30, 1941. TOOLS OF VICTORY

A recent broadcast by the British Prime Minister, addressed to the people of the United States, concluded with the words, " Give us the tools and we will finish the job." Mr Churchill had been telling his vast American audience of Great Britain's resolve to stay in this war to the end, and he had emphasised that the only end acceptable to the British people would be the final and absolute defeat of Germany and the destruction of every vestige of the Nazi regime. That end, he affirmed, could be hastened by immediate American intervention in the allimportant field of supply. American aid for Britain had already been declared by President Roosevelt to be a. cardinal principle of the policy of his country. The President had been swift to realise that, in the deadly struggle into which the nations of the British Commonwealth had entered with Nazi Germany, the American way of/life was as directly threatened as were the cherished systems and institutions of the British and the temporarily enslaved peoples of Europe. He realised, also, that Germany had had long years of advantage in preparation for what was to be Herr Hitler's bid for world domination, and that when the first blow was struck with fiendish violence against Poland, the German war machine was already geared to maximum capacity, militarily and industrially. He well understood that Britain could not maintain herself in a state of siege and at the same time so reorganise her industrial mechanism as to enable her quickly to overtake, the leeway in-the production of all the varied Jmpedimenta of war that was the consequence of the disastrous years of appeasement. The Lease and Lend Act was the answer given. in the United States to Britain's appeal for. material assistance on a. scale sufficient to convert the. prospect of an eventual German defeat into the . certainty of it. We know now," when we speak of pur belief that the cause of international decency will triumph in Europe and elsewhere, that that belief is established on grounds that -are unshakable. American aid for the Allies, as Mr Harry Hopkins has just declared in a stirring broadcast, has already become a tremendous factor in the struggle and is dramatically working towards its peak—a peak that will spell" doom for tyranny wherever it has raised its ugly head. Mr Hopkins, who is in England as the personal representative of President Roosevelt and the' supervisor of the lease arid lend programme, is; able to give not only the most encouraging information concerning the nature and extent of current American war: provision, but also to convey the assurance that whatever else may be needful to the Allied war effort will be supplied to the full extent of American capacity. His message is one of unbounded hope and of complete confidence in. the outcome of this greatest of all wars of liberation.