Evening star., 1940-08-19
BuIIitt Backs Consumption,
Uroes Aid to British Fleet
(Tert of Ambassador Bullttfs
speech on page B-10.)

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 19 (P.-
William c. Bullitt, Ambassador to
France, bluntly predicted a German
attack on the United States if Great
Britain is defeated as he urged the
Nation last night to adopt con-
scription and send aid to the British
fleet.
The address, broadcast from his
toric Independence Square, was re-
leased through the State Depart
ment, indicating it had full admin
istration approval.
America is in danger" he said
gravely.
1T is my conviction, drawn from
my own experience and from the
information in the hands Of our
Government in Washington, that
the United States is in as great peril
today as was France year ago.
And I believe that unless we act
now, decisively. to meet the threat
we shall be too late"
At one point, he asked the 1000
persons in front of the shrine, DO
YOU want to see Hitler in 1ndepend-
ence Hall making fun of the Liberty
Bell?"
mol" he shouted, and the crowd
shouted with him. -.
Support for Conscription Urged.
Write and telegraph to your
Senators and Representatives" he
urged. Write to your newspaper
Demand the privilege of being
called into the service of the Ma
ton. Tell them that we want con-
scription. Tell them that we back
up Gen. Pershing."
Gen. Pershing, commander of the
American EXpeditionary Force in
the last war, advocated in Washing
ton August 4 that "at least So
destroyers left over from the World
War be made available to the Brit
iSh.
Mr.. Bullitt, the first high-rank
ing member of the administration
to advocate naval aid. declared the
destruction of the British Navy
would be the turning of our At
lantic Maginot Line"
Without the British Navy" he
asserted, the Atlantic would give
US no more protection than the
Maginot Line gave France after the
German troops had marched
through Belgium"
Warns of False Security.
Warning against unpreparedness,
the envoy said:
The men and women who tell
you that the dictators will not
attack the Western Hemisphere may
be honest, wishful thinkers or they
may be agents of the dictators; but
in either case, by lulling you into
a false security and retarding your
preparedness for defense, they are
keeping the way clear for an as
sault on America by the dictators.
They are enemies, consciously or
unconsciously, of our country and
our liberties"
If Great Britain is conquered, Mr..
Bullitt foresaw that island along with
the whole continent of Europe Or
ganiZed into one economic unit di-
rected from Berlin. No country of
North or South America, he said,
would be able to trade with Europe
except on such terms as might be
pleasing to the dictators.'
In the Pacific, he asserted, would
be the Japanese Navy, cooperating
with the dictators, which would be
able to cut us off from our supplies
of rubber and tin and would compel
us to leave large part of our fleet
in the Pacific to defend Hawaii
and the West Coast.
Cudahy on Platform.
With Mr.. Bullitt on the platform
we're two other American ENJOYS to
German conquered European ma
tions, Anthony j. Drexel Biddle,
Ambassador to the Polish govern
ment-in-exile, and John Cudahy,
who returned recently from his post
in Belgium.
The Ambassador, returning to his
native city after seven years in
Moscow and Paris, spoke over two
major radio hookups. He was in
troduced by Roland S. Morris, for
mer Ambassador to Japan and presi-
dent of the American Philosophical
Society, under whose auspices he
smoke.