The Archive · 1941

Women Of America Vote

Full Aid To Britain

Atlantic City, May 24.

A general session of the American Federation of Women's Clubs, representing over 2,000,000 American club women, yesterday endorsed all-out aid to Britain, Mrs, John Whitehurst, Federation President, said that the endorsement "means we approve whatever aid is necessary—convoys. or sending our boys across the ocean."

Mr. Adolf Perle, Assistant Secretary of State and one of the original ers of President Roosevelt's "brain trust" told the federation that the United States must act in the present emergency "We are facing an attempt at military and naval domination of the world by a Eurqpean power," he said. "We have come to the point where the attempt is nearing the New World. From here out we have to rely on our own strength and our own ability to act where necessary. This is the only way we can keep ourselves even approximately safe."—United Press,

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

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