WAR & PEACE: How Far From Fighting

WAR & PEACE

A Gallup poll this week reported that 17% of the voters favored having the U. S. enter World War II. This was a smaller pro-war minority than there was last June when France fell (19%), but it had grown since July, when it was down to 15%. More significantly, willingness to fight if need be had grown more rapidly than eagerness to fight. Whereas in May only 36% of the voters thought aid to Britain more important than avoiding all risk of war, in September the number willing to take that chance had...

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