The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-13
SENATOR BORAH'S
 WAR OPINIONS
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 Washington, April 13 = (U.P)- Senator William E. Borah, R., Ida, denounced European democracies as treaty spoilsmen today and ad- vised youth that any war emanat- ing from the issues of the current crisis would be "sordid and imper- ialistic."
 Borah expressed his views in letter to students of St. Olaf Col lege of Northfield, Minn., who had asked the advice of the veteran iso- lationist and member of the sen- ate foreign relations committee be- cause of "the growing war menace"
 Borah said the issue in any war would not involve the question of democracy or totalitariianism. He contended that the European nations were all alike in their dealings in international affairs.
 Blames Democracies
 'It was the Democracies of Eu- rope which wrote the secret treaties by which all the spells were divided even before the World War was closd," Borah said. "It was the Dem ocracies of Europe which wrote the Versailles Treaty, not a peace treaty, but a spells treaty. It was the Dem- ocracies which for 20 odd years re- fused to make any changes in the Versailles treaty looking toward peace.
 These European powers, whatever may be their idea of theology or po- litical views, pursue one and the same course when they come to dealing with international affairs. They all alike violate treaties, dis regard the most fundamental prin- ciples of right pursue methods which inevitably lead to war, and then call upon the United States, Canada and other nations to save them from their own intolerable and vicious methods.
 At Home, Not Abroad
 Borah said that the United States abhors the doctrines of Naziism and Communism, but youth should deal with them at home, not abroad.
 "Only a few days ago MT. Cham berlain (Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain) declared in one of his speeches that while there was 8 question in Europe of theology, and so forth, it was not up for consideration now" he contin- ued.
 When the time comes for the rising generation to deal with Naziism, Fascism, Communism, that devils brew, which has been tend- cred to the clean-minded, patriotic, American boys, they will deal with 1t upon American soil and not in foreign lands where they. would be sold out within a fortnight after their might had finished the job, as they were at Versailles"
 Borah counseled youth to "inves- tigate for yourselves as to the real issues which threatens to involve us in another European war"
 A thorough investigation will dis
 Imperialistic War
 close to you that more sordid, im- perialistic war could hardly be im- agined than this war should it un- fortunately come," he said.
 Reflect for a moment, how much better the condition of the world to- day would be had the spells of the victors never been incorporated in the Versailles treaty and all had followed the far-seeing statesman ship of the then president of the United States.
 The courageous Prime Minister of Canada, Mackenzie King, said few days ago: The idea that every 20 years this country, which has done all it can to run itself, should feel called upon to save periodically a continent which cannot run itself sems to be nightmare and sheer madness Again he said: Tn a war to save the liberty of others and thus our own, we should not sacrifice our own liberty or our own until"
 Youth Should Be Concerned
 Youth should be concerned in the crisis; he continued, because 1t would be called upon to fill the armies.
 If they should cross the seas again to take part in European war;" he said, those who are now seeking in every way to bring on a situation which means war would not be with them. When it comes to taking up the real burdens of war, those who agitate war are never