Evening star., 1939-10-30
Hitler Is Only One
Who May Drag U. 5.
Into War, Glass Says
Statements President
Might Do So Are Termed
'Sheerest DriveI
By the Associated Press.


on earth who may drag this Nation
into war is Adolf Hitler" Senator
Garter Glass, Democrat, of Virginia,
terms statements that President
Roosevelt might do so the sheerest
drivel."
The 8l-year-old Senator, who often
has disagreed with the Chief Exec
utlve on domestic issues, asserted
last night that Senate passage of
"cash-and-carry" rules for Ameri-
can shipping anticipated Hitlers
doing this very thing in brutal dis
regard OF international law"
Resting in the hotel room where
he lay i'll during the Senate debate
on neutrality, Senator Glass ex-
planned that while he favored re-
peal OF the arms embargo, ne did not
take much satisfaction in the cash
and-carry" system.
Even with the harsh and I'M
precedented restrictions upon our
merchant shipping" he said in an
Interview, there is no assurance
that Hitlers submarines and bomb
ers will not disregard all require
ments OF international law.
Sees "Dishonor to Our Dead"
This country went into the World
War to vindicate its rights on the
high seas, and now to relinquish
these rights through fear of Hitler
Is to dishonor our dead"
Senator Glass referred to Hitler
as this Wretched creature" and
added:
He is fervent believer in the
Immoral Machiavellian doctrine of
the end justifying the means, how
ever vile the end may be-"
Because of that, Senator Glass said
he regarded as most humiliating
spectacle" the Senates search of
ways to "contravene immemorial
requirements of international law
through positive fear of a Central
European assassin
Uses British Slang.
At one point, the Senator used
an old English colloqualism to
describe Hitler.
His pledged word" Senator Glass
said, lis not worth a thrip.'
In British slang, thrip is the term
for three-penny piece.
Celebrating on the views, the
veteran Senator asserted he still
believed in the principles he
enunciated in 1916 when he spoke
against a bill which would have
had Congress warn Americans that
they travelled in belligerent vessels
at their own risk.
At that time. Senator Glass,
speaking of his two sons, said he
would rather be pursued through
time and eternity by the pitiful
apparition of their shattered forms
than to see my country dishonored
and its flag hauled down in dis
grace"
The Senator glanced across the
room at pictures of Gen. John J.
Pershing, his children and his grand
children.
One of my sons was gassed, and
the other was combatant soldier"
he remarked.
Summary of Views.
The following is summary of
Senator Glass neutrality views as
expressed to the Associated Press
Although distinctly distressed at
my inability, due to severe illness.
to be in the Senate and personally
cast my vote for repeal of the
abominable Embargo Act, I derive
measured satisfaction from the
overwhelming vote in favor of re-
peal. 1 was paired in favor of re-
peal and to that extent my vote
counted as much as had it been cast
personally.
l do not take much satisfaction
IN the inclusion in the embargo re-
peal bill of the so-called "cash-and-
carry feature. 1 think no other
nation on earth has thus voluntarily
abandoned its undoubted rights in
international law on the subject of
neutrality.
Not in my 80-odd years of life
have I known or heard of a more
humiliating spectacle than that pre-
sented by the legislative body of
great, rich and powerful Nation
spending months in devising expe-
dients to contravene immemorial
requirements of international law
through positive fear of a Central
European assassin.
Responsibility With Congress.
In my view, the talk about the
President or any other parsonage
in this Nation dragging the coun-
try into war" is the sheerest drivel.
The Congress has the sole constitu-
tional right to declare war; the
President is not granted the power
to either approve or veto the de-
cision Of Congress in this respect.
So that if We are to be dragged into
the war or to stay out, as we I'M
oouhedly should do. it must be by
action of the Congress.
The only person on earth who
may drag this Nation into war is
Hitler, and the action of the Senate
in passing the cash and carry"
feature of the embargo bill was.
as 1t seems to me. distinctly in antici-
patton of Hitler doing this very thing
in brutal disregard of international
law.
No Sdllc pelSoIl COI1CtlNtS llldL
either Great Britain or France is
going to sink any of our merchant
vessels, or ruthlessly drown any of
our nationals without warning and
and in shameless violation of inter-
national law. Nobody has ventured
to suggest that Italy or even Russia
is capable of doing anything of this
kind. 1t is only Hitler who is ex-
pected to do it, and it is in fear Of
this wretched creature, dripping
with the blood of women and chill
dren and non-c combatants, boasting
of his ravages of open towns in one
of his conquered nations. that we
have the shocking spectacle of this
great Nation relinquishing it's rights
on the high seas and excessively
penalizing its own shipping industry