A demand that the United States spare nothing in giving complete as: sistance to the Allies, even with American men, was made by more than 100 prominent American residents of Britain in a message to President Roosevelt today, The message appealed to the people of the United States to make every sacrifice for the Allied cause, and that without delay.
"We are Americans on British soil," the appeal began, "but first and foremost we are still Americans. Now that President Roosevelt has so courage ously spoken, we implore our fellow countrymen, who so obviously want to minimize the present catastrophe, to realize that there cannot. there must not be delay, for delay costs lives.
"Let us not forget," the American sponsors of the appeal emphasized, "that procrastination is the vice of all free people and, by not forgetting this, act at once.
"To all Americans on both sides of the once broad Atlantic: our duty, one of plain commonsense, is obvious.
"We can help in the following ways; we must give planes and more planes, guns and more guns and. if necessary, and which is harder still, our men, "Moreover, the sacrifice should be ours as well as a sacrifice of the United States. We must give our full personal, material and financial support to those various organizations which are already established, organizations such as the Red Cross, the Winthrop Aldrich Committees throughout the United States, am-balances for Great Britain of which particulars were broadcast a few nights ago, tle American Field Service, and others," the message concluded—Havas.
M. Reynaud's "Last Appeal"
Paris, June 13.
A "second and last appeal' has been sent to President Roosevelt. Premier Paul Reynaud announced this evening in a broadcast address made immediately after the Cabinet met under the chairmanship of President Albert Lebrun to discuss the political and military situation.
"We need waves and waves of planes from the United States, Reynaud asserted, "We know the place held by ideals in the life of the American people. Will they hesitate to state they are against Nazi Germany?" he added.
"In this hour which has swept down on us, there is first of all one thing to be said, At a moment when fate overwhelms us, I wish publicly to proclaim the heroism of the French armies, the heroism of our soldiers, and the heroism of their leaders, the Premier said.
"I have seen coming from the battle men who had not slept for five days, harassed by planes, wearied by marching and fighting. These men, whose nerves the enemy thought he could shatter, had no doubt about the final result of the war and did not doubt the future of the countr; The heroism of our armies at Dw eon surpassed in the batch have been fought from the sea to Argonne. The soul of France is not conquered, "Our will not allow itself to ace y invasion," M. Reynaud The soil on which we and have lived so many centuries has always repelled and conquered invasion, The world must know of all that suffering and pride. Men everywhere on earth must know what they owe to Fi The time has come for them to pay their debt The French army guard of all democratic armies, It sacrificed itself, but in losing this battle it dealt frightful blows to the common enemy. Phe hundreds of tanks destroyed. planes shot down, the losses in men, the gasoline plan in flames—all that explains the pres ent moral state of the German people, despite the victories,
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