The Archive · 1940

Siege Says Envoy

U.S. Ambassador Appeals For Red Cross Funds

London, June 24.

Everything indicates that Britain will be called upon to meet the greatest siege in the history of man, declared the United States Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Kennedy, ip a broadcast io America appealing for funds for the American Red Cross in Britain.

"The war has come to Britain," he said. "This island now faces all the danger and misery which swept over Poland, Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France.'—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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