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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21504, 17 November 1939, Page 6

“The first by-product of the war in American political life has been to elevate the President once more to a position of acknowledged national leadership,” said Mr Raymond Gram Swing, broadcasting from New York to 8.8. C. listeners. “Mr Roosevelt himself has asked for non-partisan support—and he is getting it. This is a beginning. What the development of such a beginning will be in American national affairs depends primarily on what happens in Europe. It might keep Mr Roosevelt in the White House for a third term. For the present, he appears to sum up in his policy the American view of the war. He has proclaimed neutrality, but kept his right—and the right of Americans-—to think un-neutrally. * « * • • If one surveys the whole front—sea, land, air and economic resources—l am convinced the Allies can defend their empires.— Mr Herbert Hoover. • * • ♦ European moral and ethical gilt-edged securities have reached an unprecedentedly low level.— Mr Jan Masaryk.