'A demand that the United States spare nothing in giving complcie sistance {othe 'Allies, even with 'American men, was made by more than 100 prominent American residents of Britain in a message to President Roosevelt today'.
The message appealed to the people of the United States to make every sacrifice for the Allied cause, and that without delay. on British soit, the appeal began, "but first and fore. most we are still Americans. Now that President Roosevelt has 50 cour age ously spoken, we implore our fel. Jow countrymen, who so obviously want to minimize the present catas-{rophe, to. realize that there cannot, there must not be delay, for delay costs lives, "Let us not forget," the American sponsors of the appeal emphasized, "that procrastination is the vice of all free people and, by not forgetting this, act at once.
"To all Americans on both sides of the once broad Atlantic: our duty, tone of plain commonsense, is obvious.
"We can help in the following ways: we must give planes and more planes, guns and more guns and, if necessary, and which is harder sill, our men, "Moreover, the sacrifice should be ours as well as a sacrifice of the United States. We must give our full personal, material and financial sup-ort to' those various organizations Which are already established, organizations such as the Red Cross, the Winthrop Aldrich Committees throughout the Uniled Slates, am-balances for Great Britain of which particulars were brondeast a few nights ago, the American Field Service, and others," the message con-sluded—Havas, Know of all that suffering and pride, Men everywhere on earth must know what they owe to France. The time has come for them to pay their debt, The French army was the advance guard of all democratic armies. 11 sacrificed itself, but in losing this battle it dealt frightful blows to the common enemy, The hundreds of tanks destroyed, planes shot down, the losses in men, the vaseline plants names—all that explains the pr ent moral state of the German pcople, despite the victories.
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