Show ECONOMIC highlights industrial news review in future years historians will re ord the swift changes that took lace in the temper and attitude atti tude ot 31 he american people and their lead I 1 rs during 1940 and 1941 looking g sack ack now on the months that fol owed the outbreak of world war 1 J I it seems as if we lived then in mother world the majority of the people wanted neutrality arid they wanted no part of Eu ropes newest ness they wanted to avoid the risk of the war it at all costs and the ita statesmen who represented them elt the same way today the polls show that we till want to keep out of barbut hat a con considerable sid erable majority despite that favor helping england to he fullest extent even if it involve s the risk of our being drawn into var no one talks of neutrality it sas dead as moses the cash and arry policy has been virtual virtually ly for ott otten enit at is perfectly clear that ev ry financial resource will be used lo 10 help arm britain no less than our elves the american people in short hort are violently part partisan iian and he american nation is definitely nd ind irretrievably in the war chathas Wh Wha athas ihas caused this chan change ge e jt if cok us almost three years to he errie really feally antl anti german cerman in the last took us less than a year ye arthis this me better communication both erbal arld visual has been a factor 10 1 o has the arri amazing izing courage of the british people the americans like nd respond joany display of brav ry against odds most important n all probability has been the fast growing feeling that our destiny ind britaina Brit ains are intermixed intermix ed and nse parable and that it britain falls e will be in grave danger there are those who stoutly pe jac i this doctrine but they are arc mu much c in nithe the minority the president ob bously thinks that britain is fight ng for us MS as well as for foi herself so io most members of congress so do 0 the bulk of the leading commentators so does a long list of prin apal daily newspapers that is why opposition to the lend lease bill has madi made so little I 1 progress there i just canough support behind it j last chance of defeating or ur ser loosly modifying the billand bill and at it best it was an extremely frail chance died when wondell wendell willkie took the stand mr willkie received american votes last november only less than the president his hii trip to england in in which he crammed months of vis visiting it talking and investigating i nto into a few days and nights was a dramatic pilgrimage he made a fine impression mp abroad while he has lost some of his past supporters lie he has gained new friends and followers so when willkie said he was per cent in favor of the bill with certain modifications and went even farther than the president in some respects by suggesting that we give britain outright destroyers and army bombers the die was cast the two men who were given the votes of close to americans in in their race for the presidency and who stand head and shoulder above any other national figures of this day believe that En glands fate a and nd our fate cannot be separated there is no doubt of their sincerity even as there is no doubt of the sincerity of those who still hold to a different and opposed point of view and there is no doubt that this country is committed to the hilt to the policy for which roosevelt and willkie stand today millions of americans hate hitler and what he represents with an almost personal hatred for mussolini they have contempt and laughter these millions of americans feel that the dictators are their enemies just as they are eng lands enemies the old crimes and mistakes of imperial engl england and have been forgotten and in the opinion of many a thoughtful student we ourselves are about to embark from necessity on an unprecedented j imperial rn peria I 1 policy of our own |