The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-24

!. s.f ff Il ' l. and Clubs sent other letters yester- day to Senators Key Putnam, Wil- liam E. Borah, Robert F. Wagner and Senator Thomas of Utah. v
 Scores of organizations in Water. bury and neighborhood towns and cities as well as thousands of indi- viduals here and throughout the state are cooperating with the Fed- eration. Millions of letters are reaching Washington from Italian and non-Italian Americans.
 Attorney Pasquale De Cicco chairman of the educational com- mittee of the Federation and ex- ecutive officer of the American Friends for Italy, has been hand- liIH the individual progress both in behalf of the New York office of the national organization and as 8 committee for the local federation. Italian Americans would like to sec America be impartial and see no reason why Ethiopia should concern us more than China. The same agitation has not been car- ried on against Japan.
 News of new military and naval alliances and preparations for new wers, prove sufficiently that any effort on the part of America in aiding the so-called League of Ma ticns lis really a contribution to the outbreak of a greater war.
 American pacifists should con- slider the fact that Italy has re- mained faithful to every obligation and has made no military or naval alliances to protect herself and to guarantee the outcome of her own difficult program.
 On the other hand, the statement reads, we learn from official sources that England has made military and naval alliance with France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and other countries for which Italian blood has been spilled in order 10 obtain their freedom.
 We wonder how former subjects of barbarous Turkey feel about 1t and how Americans, who have often resented the murder of millions of Arnenians feel with the new Eng fish Turkish alliance? America would be. another tacit ally by adopting a neutrality law. No people stand for civilization and freedom more than Italy and no people are more similar to Ameri- can ideals than the Italians.
 HsRaA HImAAMVs
 Dear sir:-
 We arc sincerely interested in the neutrality policy of the Uni- ted States particularly now that the League of Nations seems to acknowledge the futslity to apply sanctions effectively against Italy in the Italian Ethiopian question.
 Since this country has disas- sociated from the so-called League of Nations and chose to follow its own traditional course of remaining distant from foreign entanglements, any neutrality bill which would be enacted with the ultimate result of directly or in- directly aiding the so-called League of Nations would be con- trary to our American traditional principles.
 As American citizens and American World War Veterans of Italian extraction, you can under stand that while we do not wish that the United States help Italy, we certainly do not like to see the United States adopt any leg islation which can be interpreted as favoring the interests or der signs of other nations, who are no more justified in pursuing Q program of imperialism or pre- serving their iinperialistic~ gains { to- tho detrirnent of nations less fortunate.
 Our own American experience from the last world war is slf- ficient to convince us that we. as nation, have no real friends outside our national boundaries. All foreign nations pretending to { be our friends are indeed trying to influence us for their own ins terests.
 According to newspaper reports the government of the United States aavors q law which would empower it to extend the neutral ity law of our country SC that not only implements of war, but necessaries 0f life would be in- cluded.
 We are convinced that the, aim and purpose Of the proposed leg- islation is to cut Italy of from purchases of any supplies like oil. cotton and other goods which gro as essential to the preservation of fife as to the conduct of war. Imme diateiys thereafter the Leagua of NatioiiA would include x the tame Items ii ite sanctions and ihstead of tfying to end ( war we might Do partly rer apohsibla n extending <.