HENRY FORD’S ACTION

Patea Mail, 8 January 1940, Page 3

HENRY FORD’S ACTION

■ ' HOSTILITY IN AMERICA RUSSIANS LEAVE WORKS Mr, Hpn,ry Ford wan so distressed over Russian aggression in Po'.and and Finland that he told 40 Soviet experts, whd -were studying at his huge works to leave. Mr. Hastings Deering, chairman and managing director of Hastings Deering rty. Ltd., who has spent six months in the United States and Canada, said this on his return to Sydney. “These experts came to .Mv.'FcrfJ’s works, to learn what they could about ■motor-car production,said Mr. Doeriug, who had long interviews with Mr. Ford and his son Mr. Edscl Ford. “Whtle Russia was at peace, Mr, Ford welcomed these Communists, who were eager to learn; He was anxious to assist. But his feelings changed when Russia became an aggressor. The experts were told .that they would no longer be welcome at his factories, Mr. Deering said that in the United States many people had expressed to him.their anxiety about Communism and the sinister influence it was already having. “There arc a great number of .people in the United States who feel, because of Communism, that this war is of much greater concern to them than was the Great War, ’ * said Mr. Deering. “They spoke of the spread of Communist propaganda in the United States, and they told me that much of St was entering the homes. Many Americans told me they believed Ihnt this war would end in a common fight against Communism, in which the United States must take •an active part. n