JUSTIFY BELIEFS IN DEMOCRACY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 34, 10 February 1941, Page 6

JUSTIFY BELIEFS IN DEMOCRACY

NECESSARY TO WIN WAR VIEW OF NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR [By Tc*legraph—Press Absociation —Copyright) Received Feb. 9, 10.25 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Mr. J. G. Winant, newly-appointed United States Ambassador to Britain, in a speech said: “To win the war or bouild our defence we must lirst justify beliefs for strengthening fundamental, economic, social and civil rights of all free citizens. We cannot expect a citizen with no share in the .benefits of democracy to give faith or life for the preservation of the empty promises of democracy. This will happen only if we are willing to wipe out the hunger, want and hopelessness of the pre-war period.”

U.S. CO-OPERATION SHOULD BE WIDER IN SCOPE Received Feb. 9, 5.5 p.m WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Mr. J. G. Winant, newly-appointed Ambassador to Britain, said he would probably depart for London in the middle of the month probably by plane. He said he thought that eventually the United States must collaborate on a wider scale with other democracies —wider than merely England and the United States. Mr. Winant declined to elaborate on this statement. He recalled that he had visited England often and knew’ most of the present Government. He said his first visit to London was before the world war to study Mr. Lloyd George’s social programme. He was very much interested in social improvements. Asked if he hoped to be useful to the labour classes during his London mission, Mr. Winant replied that he hoped to be useful to all people of both countries.