AMERICAN AID FOR BRITAIN
Mr Ickes Urges Speed
In Action
(Rec. 11.45 p.m.) NEW YORK,May 18. The Secretary of the Interior, Mr Harold L. Ickes, in a speech, said the United States “not only will fight for democracy, but will make it worth fighting for.” “We must give the British everything we have, and by everything I mean everything needed to beat the life from the common enemy,” he said. “America will help England to drive back the hordes of Hell who besiege her. Then we will join for the destruction of savage bloodthirsty dictators everywhere, but we must be firm and decisive. We must know our will and make it felt—and we must hurry.” Mr Ickes said he was convinced that Americans would lose their freedom unless they co-operated fully in aiding the enslaved peoples to recover their liberty. “These hundreds of millions of liberty-loving people constitute the greatest sixth column in history,” he said. “They have the will to destroy the Nazi gangsters. We have always helped the struggles for human freedom and we will help again.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 5
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179AMERICAN AID FOR BRITAIN Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 5
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