AMERICA AND WAR

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20888, 21 August 1939, Page 7

AMERICA AND WAR

WILL BE DRAWN IN PRESIDENT MAY INTERVENE v United Press. Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, Aug. 19 Seventy-six per cent of American people now believe that the United States will be drawn into a war against Germany and Italy, according to the American Institute's latest public opinion poll. In 1937 38 per cent thought so. A striking feature is that the highest percentage of those who hold this belief (78) is found in the middle west, which is traditionally isolationist. The survey was not an investigation of what Americans wish, but what they feel they must expect. The chief reasons why the United States will be involved are given as follows: —American sympathy with Britain and France; disapproval of the Nazi and Fascist regimes; America’s commercial ties with Britain and France; and the fear of the democracies’ defeat. President Roosevelt will return next week from his cruise off the Canadian coast. The New York Herald-Tribune's Washington correspondent says it will not be surprising if he intervenes in Europe. He is known to be anxious ‘to lire another spot for peace.” If lip can summon a peace conference or do something to push Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini off their balance and upset their timing, he will consider the effort well worth the risk of being accused of meddling and war-mongeriug.