The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-29
AlD-TO-BRITAIN
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can people. That sentiment enools-
es first the steps already taken by
YOUR administration in m a
available to Britain the fifty de-
strovers recently released and the
other supplies provided for BTU
;sh defense. We are also confl-
dent that the same sentiment VIII
support every additional aid to
Britain which you may tlnd pos
sible on the principle that Britain
is now the first line of American
defense. So long as that line re-
mains intact, we r secure ron
immediate menace and have time
for preparation against whatever
NAV later impend in the present
dangerous state of mankind.
1--WE recognize, as you have 1re.
o,,ently declared, that the present
struggle in the world is between
two ways of life, only one OF when
can be ours. The forces now at
work for the undermining OF that
wav of life constitute a common
danger which we did not produce
but whose consequences, II these
forces prevail, we cannot escape.
The most urgent need is to hold
those forces now at their present
line. and to this end we favor IN
creased material aid to Britain,
especially in the things first and
most critically required, to tn
greatest feasible extent.
1--WE offer you u support IN
this policy; we urge speed and
holiness in it; and we will, with
others, do our several parts toward
mobilizing the support Of public
sentiment which we see already
crystallizing throughout the nation.
Macmillan also made public the
following statement made before
the conference by Charles H. Hall,
of Connecticut.
Before we adjourn, I want one
last word with you. 1t seems to me
that America is closing her eyes
to the dire situation confronting
the world, and speaking weasei
words. as a delegate so aptly SAID
yesterday.
ut so happens that I have been
in Europe for about two months
every three months for the last
ten years. 1 lived in the Sudetan
area ten days at a stretch, three
times a year; I saw the insidious
propaganda which broke the Sude-
tan area way from Cecho-Slovak-
ia, I was in Prague when Hitler
came in.
ION my last trip, three months
ago, the first two weeks in April
were spent in Italy. Not an Italian
I talked with was in favor
of joining with Germany, and I
talked with many of them. The
last half Of April was spent in
France-al ii complacent, no
thought of their impending doom.
I was slated to go to Holland. Omit
ted it and went to England and
while there had communications
from my friends in Holland, ask
ing why I was emitting my trip
there; they said all was tranquil
business as usual-no danger of
invasion.
ENGLAND was at this time much
disturbed over the Norwegian dis
aster. I flew from England via
France and Agrica to Portugal and
spent two weeks in Portugal until
May 10 when I flew to New York.
1.-The point to this rehearsal is
the fact that we in America are
pursuing precisely the path which
led the European countries to dis
aster. We are making timid ges-
lures much short of what we would
do if we were earnestly convinced
that England is our first line of de-
tense, and that if she falls, we
face the world alone. What solution
to this problem have the Isolation
lists to offer!" 2