"Warfare has now engulfed the Mediterranean region and threatens to spread to the Near East," Mr. Welles told the Foreign Affairs Couneit here.
'Alone, the British people,. with heroism worthy of the finest' iraditions of that brave people, are de-nding successfully their homes and jerties—the same liberties which {free men cherish everywhere, "It is the policy of your govern ment, als approved by Congress, and, 1 believe, by an" overwhelming majority of the American people, to render all material support and ase sistance through the furnishing of supplies and munitions te the British Dominions in what we hope to be their successful defence against armed aggression."
He said that the only bright pie" ture in the international situation, asthe growing solidarity and friendship among the 21° American Republics.
"Outside the Western Hemispher he said, "the concept of international morality and the authority of inter= national Law have ceased to be determining factors."
"Lowest Against The Finest"
Mr. Welles said the present world. struggle is one of "the lowest that human nature against the finest, of barbarism against civiliza~ tion, of darkness against light."
Until the Munich Pact was signed, he said, the United States had constantly concentrated its attention on attempting to obtain a peaceful settlement of world problems. since then," he warned, "the policy of our Government has been cancered primarily and consistently with assuring our own national defences.
It has been directed towards the perfection of car means of cooper tion with our sister Republics in the New World and towards assisting these nations outside the Western Hemisphere whose continued independence and integrity contribute towards the maintenance of peace, and whose continued freedom to live their own untrammelled, democratic way of Tie. constitutes a' bulwark for the maintenance of individual liberty the Western Hemisphere."—United Press.
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