New York, Apr. 30.
"England offers a hope of progress, Germany offers terror, a British victory is absolutely a necessity." These are extracts from a manifesto issued by yet another pro-Allies committee named the Union for Democratic Action.
Headed by the Reverend Reinhold Neibuhr, professor of Christian Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary, the committee includes educationists, writers, liberals, democrats, socialists, radicals and C.LO. end A.F.I. union leaders, The manifesto also: says: "It is criminal folly to assume that there is nothing to choose between a British and German victory. We seek the peace that draws the United States towards Europe, There must not be another Versailles treaty."
The committee's programme is "whatever political, economic and military means are needed to defeat the aggressors,"
Businessmen's Opinion "A German victory should be prevented at almost any cost" is the opinion of 841 per, cent, of leading American businessmen, according to a Survey conducted by the American magazine "Fortune." Only 138 per cent. believed "if Germany was victorious the world would be safe and at least economically tolerable for the United States to live in without huge armaments."
Only 85 per cent. believed Germany would succeed in establishing a-new European order "with which it would be possible for us to resume business relations following approximately the pre-war methods."
Half of those who polled favoured the development of the defence. programme "at the expense of business as A percentage of 55.4 disapproved of the stand taken by Colonel Lind-borgh and the Isolationist Senator, Burton K. Wheeler (Democrat).—
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