Willkie Statement: Return From Britain & New PanAm Route, 1941

Willkie Statement: Return From Britain & New PanAm Route, 1941 CU and MCU vars takes of Wilkie’s statement on return from visit to England and Ireland; “I want to say to the people of the United States...I think every day they should be prayerfully thankful that they are not compelled to live as the free people of Britain are compelled to live, with sleepless nights of apprehension and days of fear for what may happen on the morrow...I went as a private citizen...”; visited “thousands of Britons” involved in war effort inc. “men in their loafing places, the public pubs”. 22:44:25 MS Wilkie at microphones w/ Pan American chief Juan Trippe, Clipper diagram in BG; Wilkie talks about journey home on new PanAm route from Portugal via Africa and Trinidad to US, longest commercial flight. VS Trippe speech about success of new route, joined by Captain Gray in pilot’s uniform. Aviation. WWII.