The Archive · 1939

Important Outpost Aided

Now York, Feb. 2 "ft should now be apparent that the outermost bulwark of American peace and security Is not the Atlantic Ocean "but Great Britain and France," declared the "New York World Telegram," commenting on te new turn

shadowed by President Roosevelt'

(Amweriean foreign policy fore: conference on Tuesday with the Senate Military Affairs Committee.

"What is happening in France and Great Britain is paying us in gold' For the privilege of strengthening one fof the most important and the most threatened outposts of our national defence," says the editorial. "We are incredibly Iueky to make such a deal Tu terms of national defence, one plane delivered to England' and France would be worth ten times that many delivered to the American Air Force six months {rom now: Reuter.

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