American Sympathies The opening speeches at the Democratic Convention in Chicago clearly shows that on one thing both the big American parties are agreed. Both condemn the aggressive policies of the (olalitarian states, and are prepared to give Great Britain and her Allies every assistance possible short of actually going to war. Mr. William—Bankhead,—Representative from Alabama, and Speaker of the House of Representatives. sounding the keynote of the Convention, made that quite plain in his. speech, roundly. cot "those bers of wor Me forcefully sinister shadow of a_eruel, despotic-like pall of doom mocratic, liberty-loving peoples. juggernaut of physical force and brutal power has laid a blighting hand on the ity." "Great Britain, he pointed out ayainst the hurricane of the Blitz criey and Mussolini have sworn her total anni To thing, to perform another, and to be dont before they' wilt even st fof accomplishing what the dictators have pro mised themselves. Siznor Gayda, so often des cribed as the mouthpiece of Ht Duce, has one hrouneed that the onslaught against the British Isles will commence in the course of the next few days, That probably accounts for the recent slowing up of German air activities ayainst the British fsles, Obviously, if Hitler is. to have his triumphal entry into Berlin on July 27, following the fall of London, he wilt have to get busy, for only ten more days are left within which to ehieve the objective he is alleged have in mind, What the enemy apparently {ail to understand i that even if they were able to perform any such miracle as thai which apparently. they contemplate, it would not mean the end of the war. Mr. Churchill in one of his recent speeches made it perfectly clear to the world thal, even if the Germans were to succeed in' tie unlikely event of occupying the British Toles, it would not mean the end of the war. ft would to be waged rom te rest Empire, and n that event the assistance which both the United Stites are prepared Allies would be more and more that. the led Sates "are now fully them of a totalitarian nas the next aries in the United States, and elsewhere Uhroushout the western hemisphere, and. the British can continue to fight in. good heart knowing that they are a Tong way. from the exhaustion of their potential resources, while the enemy is rapidly advancing towards short hick wil ultimately involve them in the
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