Washington, Mar. 18.
Mr. Wiliam Phill Simms. Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor, wrote yesterday that diplomatic observers believed President Roose-volts speech on Saturday night foreshadowed granting armed aid to Britain, especially naval assistance.
"A secondary reaction is a feeling that Hitler may soon consider it necessary to break off diplomatic relations with the United States out of regard for his own prestige," Mr. Simms declared.
The writer said reliable sources doubt Britain's ability single-handedly to cope with the prospective intensified German submarine warfare in the Atlantic because of commitments elsewhere. Hence a new variety of assistance from the United States "may well become vital soon."
"The United States may be oblived," Mr. Simms said, "to intervene with its Navy, observers here privately say."—United Press.
Aid Still Flowing will be extended to Chungking, the paper declared, Taking advantage of a technical point that Japan is not t war with China, the United States might dare to carry arms to Chungking in American ships, "In that event there would be no alternative for Japan than to frustrate such an attempt with the same resolutige recently professed by Hitler."—United Press, Washington, Mar. 18.
Lord Halifax told reporters yesters day that Germany has been unable to interrupt substantially the flow of American supplies to Britain, He indicated that only a small percentage of American goods are now failing to reach England, and said that he expected that the intensified U-boat campaign would make little difference to deliveries—Reuter.
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