KEEPING FAITH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1940, Page 5

KEEPING FAITH

WITH IDEALS OF FREEDOM ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. THE AMERICAN DEFENCE PROGRAMME. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, December 21. President Roosevelt, in a message in commemoration of the anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, * said: “We who hold the old ideals of freedom must keep faith even in the face of the challenge of large areas of the eart h.

"Even though the enemies of democracy achieve temporary success we must pray ceaselessly that the day will be hastened when the reign of moral force will supplant brute strength in the government of men.”

Mr. Godfrey Haggard, the British Consul-General, said the post-war world would be kept at peace by the powerful democracies under a collective system in which the Germans would participate, at least in the economic sphere. The Department of Agriculture reports that the winter wheat acreage is 46,271,000 acres and the estimated production 633,000,000 bushels. The acreage represents a 5.6 per cent, increase on that of last year. President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation placing 15 additional materials under the export licensing system. These include plans and equipment for the production of aviation lubrication oil. The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, announces the conclusion of contracts to construct 31 auxiliary ves-. seis costing approximately 265,765,000 dollars and shipyard expansion estimated to cost 6,600,000.