New York, Aug. 23.
"It looks as though 50 of our overage destroyers may soon be sent to sea manned by British sailors and flying the British flag," said Mr. William Allen White, notable American journalist, broadcasting on behalf of his "Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies."
Si hundred local committees of his organization, he declared, had signed a petition bearing nearly 3,- 000,000 signatures in support of aid for Great Britai Eminent lawyers, Mr. White state ed, had advised President Roosevelt that he had legal authority to trans-for these destroyers to the British Fleet. From the beginning of this war against Democracy, the President had. known that the United States' first-line trench lay across the Rhine, he added.—Reuter.
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