U.S. ALIVE TO DANGERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21850, 31 December 1940, Page 7

U.S. ALIVE TO DANGERS

Determined To Defend Way Of Life British Official Wireless (Received December 30, 8.42 pm.) RUGBY, December 29. When Sir W. T. Layton returned the other day from a mission on behalf of the Ministry of Supply in the United States he spoke of the impression made upon him by evidence gained during the visit and the change that country had undergone In its attitude to the war. Events of the last nine months exposed Hitlerism in its naked evil and was arousing deep Instincts of chivalry in a people to many of whom a year or more ago the Issues at stake on this side of ths Atlantic were remote and indefinite These events also left Americans with no doubt that the call to defend their way of life and the values thqy cherish might sound suddenly and soon if Hitler was not held in check by the continuing resistance of Britain. The American spirit had never accepted the menace to itself tamely nor suffered the wrong of others in silence. In an article contributed in a London Sunday newspaper a leading American newspaper proprietor observes how before the subjugation of France and the Lowlands most Americans thought that Hitler’s statements about Germans as Herrenvolk supported by the resources of a conquered world worthy only of the consideration accorded the ranting of a madman. But in another recent Gallop poll eight per cent affirmed the belief of a definite Nazi plan to make slaves of the people of Europe and conquer American trade and industry, This change in outlook in a country with a free and impartial press served by its own reporters on both sides of the European war front can be accounted for only by self revelations of the Nazis themselves. teci-taP