"People of Britain!"

Franklin Roosevelt's personal emissary, fragile, dry Harry Hopkins, took to the air this week in London, told the British people exactly what the U.S. is doing in World War II.

Said he: "Even now, as I speak, sleek grey destroyers flying the American flag are plunging their bows into the waters of the North Atlantic. . . . No enemy action can stop the ceaseless tide of ships coming here daily . . . laden with something more substantial than hopes and sympathy."

He promised "all possible aid to China and Russia--and immediately," drew a picture of Germany caught between two hostile camps supplied by the U.S.* "People of England!" cried Roosevelt's Hopkins. "People of Britain! People of the British Commonwealth of Nations! You are not fighting alone. Your Prime Minister asked us for tools. I promise you that they are coming. . . . President Roosevelt promised me that he will take steps to insure delivery of goods consigned to Britain. Our President does not give his word lightly."

* In Washington, Lieut. General Filip Ivanovitch Golikov and Engineer General Alexander Repin, heads of a Soviet military mission to coordinate Russian orders for supplies, arrived by air, conferred with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and General George Catlett Marshall, U.S. Chief of Staff.

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