MR HARRY HOPKINS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1941, Page 9

MR HARRY HOPKINS

| MISSION TO GREAT BRITAIN I FRONTIERS SWEPT AWAY. PROSPECTS OF EXTENDED CO-OPERATION. (British Official WirvlesiM RUGBY. January 9. i ?>lr H. L. Hopkins, President Rooscj veil s representative in Britain, lias arrived after crossing the Aikinite bv seaplane. No special programme of meetings has been arranged in propar- | ation for Mr Hopkins’s visit to London, j "The Times" says: "Mr Hopkins’s mission provides yet further evidence of tlte keenness of the American interest in the issues that are at stake in the future, to which both nations are confidently looking forward, and of the growing reality of ’.he part p::iyed •by America in the struggle." In this connection "'rhe Times" calls special attention to the words of Mr Roosevelt's address to Congress, in which he referred to “all possible aid to Britain irrespective of the consequences.” "Nothing." the newspaper says, "more clearly marks the increasingly world-wide character which the war has assumed. No continent is now removed from its scope. The task of reconstruction will be not less than the effective prosecution of the war." “The Times" adds that after victory common economic planning and a common economic policy will be demanded. “Frontiers have been swept away in Europe, and a bridge has been built across the Atlantic. These things must ; not be undone. Negative means of approach, have failed and will not serve. Positive organisation, based on equal and balanced consideration of the economic needs of all countries is the only answer to Hitler's order based on domination.

"There is material on which work cun bo begun new. Colonial administration. for instance, offers a field in which co-operation in times of war and for the purpose of the war should serve as a starting point. Interdependence is not the foe of independence. It is the only condition on which smaller nations and some great Powers too can hope to retain that part of their independence which is precious to them and which is permanently valuable. That is principally the moral which can be drawn from the developments on both sides of the Atlantic and the most useful pointer to the way of reconstruction which should have begun more and more to occupy our thoughts.''