The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-10
Britain Seeks Americas Aid---But Doesn't Want to Scare Us With Thoughts of "War"
By MILTON BRONNRR R NRA Service Stan Correspa ndef

N9A Service Stan Correspo noens
 Harrogate, Eng, Aug. l0.-The bus driver, the hotel porter, the man. ager, the poor men gulping h,er in the pubs, the rich men sippiny the medicinal waters of this provi ncial resort = they're all nightly wor- ried today about Americas tatti- tude".
 They are all thinking along the same lines-that the dictatt'rs would be deterred from nlakir' g war if only they knew the vast American market of arms, muni- tions, planes, raw materials and food would be opened to England and France.
 "Thirty-four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" is the name heard an irate retired British general apply to the 34 anti-Roosevelt senators who strangled the pres- ident's move to renew the various neutrality acts.
 The general meant, of course, that if Hitler provoked a war in Europe this year, it would be be- cause he no longer feared France and England would be strength ened by receiving supplies pur- chased in America. The 34 sen- ators would, therefore, be the Horsemen who encouraged Hitler and Mussolini to another Arma- geddon.
 PRESENT
 TWO ARGUMENTS
 In some ways Earrogate is a bet ter place to size up British opinion than London. After all, London is no more the real Britain than New York is the real America or Paris the real France. The blaze New Yorker makes his quips about "the sticks, just as the Londoner and the Parisian wisecrack about the provinces. But just as the middle west often ultimately decides Amer ican policy, so the provinces of Bri- tain and France do in their respec- tive countries.
 Harrogate, in the north of Eng land, is focal point. Hither come folk in limousines, in trains, in buses, either for holiday in pleasant town or to take the cure at one of its 88 springs. Mingling with these people drawn from various classes, one gets a good slant on British thought and feel ing.
 After the last World War got under way, the reproach was often leveled at the British that, if they had let Kaiser Wilhelm know they would fight him if he made war, there would have been no war. Today, faced with the dreadful possibility of another world conflict, the British, taking a lesson from their own experi- ence, are saying that America could stop the war:
 (D By making it known to Hit Ter and Mussolini that in event of stliie in Europe, America will stand beside France and England. tThe better-i informed realize that neither the president nor the senate could legally make such a
 tO By revamping the neutral ity laws so that he who has the cash and the ships can make un- limited purchases in the Amer ican market. The England argue that if belligerents were allowed to buy goods in America, provid. e cd they paid for them outright anc carried the stuff away in their owr ships at their own risk, America coud not became involved. Thus Englishmen find them. selves at cross purposes in deal. ing with Americans. On the ont hand, they would like to wir America to their side as an active ally in case of war. But in any event, they want our economic support - and to gain that, strange. ly enough, they must convince Americans that such support woule not lead us into war!
 They ignore the fact that 1t wa! the sinking of British ship, tn, Lusitania, carrying war supple. from America, which did more than anything else to arouse tn, American in the stret's wrati against Germany before the United States entry into the World War.