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Show Americans May Fight for Britain and Allies WASHINGTON President Roosevelt Roose-velt placed his emphatic approval approv-al early this week on Britain's appeal for American technical workers to service and maintain war equipments and made it clear that the way was open for Americans Ameri-cans to enlist. In British and Chinese armed forces. England called last week for American volunteers to form a civilian technical corps, including radio experts to service her radio locators devices for spotting approaching ap-proaching aircraft engineers, ma-' an oath. ' ""' "Are you encourage tv next question The president replied 1k very much favored it 7 : refering to the plan noncombatant technician,, compared it with send' T and nurses to tn Britain nee the technic much, he said. He was then asked whptv indorsement covered enli. 5 the armed forces Z simply that any boy who go has a perfect right tr ,1 ' The same thing appife, menu In the Chinese aid. He was unable to sav : er such volunteers would empted from the draft he " chine tool operators, automobile mechanics and intrument makers and repairers. When a reporter asked Mr. Roosevelt's opinion of the project at a press conference Tuesday, the chief executive fished a memorandum memo-randum from a basketfull of papers pa-pers and read from it stressing the points that volunteers were not subject to combat duty and that if needed here they would be returned to this country. Another correspondent asked if it were permissable under the neutrality neu-trality act for an American to enter en-ter a belligerent country and received re-ceived the reply that there was nothing in the act to interfere with those who wish to join the corps. Then he went on to say that Americans could even enter the armed forces of England so long as they did not take an oath of allegiance al-legiance to the king. The British, he added, were not requiring such |