Students Enthusiastic

"Up to December 7 there were three important National Student Organisations—the American Students' Union, the International Student Federation of America. I left America a week after she entered the war, but during that short time some amazing developments had taken place.

"The International Student Service and the National Student Federation had decided to urge on the basis of the ten-point programme of the United Youth for Defence. The American Student Union, according to a report I received from one of its executive members, was agreed in principle on the same course of action;

American students I met were really enthusiastic about war and supremely confident about the outcome. Their unanimous enthusiasm was refreshing on contrast to the pessimism that one so often finds in Australia. But then, of course, they have not yet experienced two and a half years of war.

"They will do their full part in the destruction of the Axis and the restoration of world peace on a more reasonable basis than existed before the war."