Evening star., 1940-06-10
Vandenberg Drops
Isolation, Urges
j. ). 10 Aid Allies
Would Not, However,
Actually Enter War;
Defense Funds Asked


limit of our capacities" without ac-
tually entering the war or impairing
Americas defense.
Long known as one of the SEN
etes leading isolationistS, Senator
Nandenberg said there is no such
thing as literal isolation left for
us in this fore shortened world" 3"
adding that we face a new set of
world facts"
Congress. the aSpirant for the
Republican presidential nomination
said in radio address. should not
adjourn until it realistically at
tacks preparedness on the fiscal as
well as the military front" He
termed the administration tax bill
as mot much more than a mustard
plaster on a cancer" and urged a
10 per cent cut in all military
expenditures. including salaries
above $4,000.
Group FavOrS War Declaration.
Meanwhile. 80 American educa
tors, lawyers. writer's and business
men - speaking as Individuals
urged in a statement that the
United States declare war on Ger
many. asserting that the frontier
of our national interest is now on
the Somme."
''Nazi Germany is the mortal enemy
of our ideals, our institutions and
our way of life the statement said
Senator Vandenberg insisted, how
ever, that this country must strive
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the war while helping the Allies all
it could. because we are not pre-
pared to 60 TO war, even if We
would
The group sponsoring the declara-
ton for war said:
What we have, what We are and
what we hope to be can now be most
effectively defended on the line in
France held by Gen. Weygand. The
frontier of our national interest is
now on the Somme.
Therefore. all disposable air,
naval. military and material re-
sources of the United States should
be made available at once to help
maintain our common front.
But such resources cannot be
made available fast enough to hold
the German Army in check on the
European continent or to prepare
for the eventual attack on American
interests so long as the United
States remains legally neutral
Nationwide Endorsement of the
defense program shows that the
American people has ceased to be
neutral in any other sense.
Constitutional Action Urged.
For this reason alone, and IL
respective Of specific uses Of our
resources thereafter the United
State should Immediately give Of
fetal recognition to the fact and to
the logic of the sltua tion-by de-
claring that a state of war exists
between this country and Germany
Only in this constitutional man
ner can the energies be massed
which are indispensable to the sue
cessful prosecution of a program of
tenfense."
Signing the declaration we're the
following:
Herbert Agar. author, Louisville.
Ky Burke Baker, Houston, Tex;
John Balderston, Beverly Hills.
Calf; Stringfellow Barr, president
of St Johns College, Annapolis.
Md: J. Douglas Brown, Princeton.
N. j.; Richard Cleveland. son of
President Cleveland. Baltimore. Md;
James F. Curtis, New York; Edwin
F. Gay, Pasadena. Calf; Edward
T, Gushee, St Louis. Mo. Marion
H. Hedges. Washington; William H.
Hessler. Cincinnati, Ohio; George
Watts Hill, industrialist, Durham,
N c.; Henry w. Hobson. Cincin-
natl; lie Roy Hodges, Richmond,
Va; Calvin Hoover. Durham. N. c.;
Edwin P, Hubble, San Marino,
Calf: Frank Kent, columnist, Bal
timore; Edward r. Lewis, Chicago;
George W. Martin, New York L.
Randolph Mason, New York: Stacy
May, New York; Francis Pickens
Miller, Fairfax. Va; Helen Hill
Miller, Washington; Walter Mills,
author, New York; George Fo-
Milton, Chattanooga. Tenn; Lewis
,Munford, author, Amania, N. Y;
u.
Whitney H. Stephenson, New York;
Admiral William H. Stanley, re-
tired, former chief of Naval Oper-
atlons, New York. and William
Waller. Nashville. Tenn.
American transition from neu-
trality to non-b belllgerency on the
side of the Allies Senator Vanden-
berg said, rushed ahead on the i'm
pulse of our deep sense Of outrage
and horror when one innocent, con-
tinental nation after another sue
Combed to the ruthless blood-lust of
Nazi and Communist conquest.
He pointed out that this country
has a practical stake in the Allies
victory because attempts by Ger
many to take over Allied territory
in this hemisphere would challenge
the Monroe Doctrine and "at this
point We fight"
Cites Need for Defenses.
Emphasizing that our reSponsi-
bility is to prepare an "impregnable
defense for ourselves and New
World democracy under the Monroe
Doctrine" he warned that I'VE dare
not subordinate this objective to
any other consideration. no matter
how nobly meditated or persuasivelv
urged"
This places a limitation on the
help that We might give the Allies,
he pointed out. I'VE shall not i'm
pair the essential nucleus of our
own presently meager defenses for
the sake of arming Others" he en-
phasized, and I'VE shall not under
any circumstances actually enter
this war abroad"
Senator Vandenberg said Ameri-
can zeal for civil liberties made
this country perhaps more suscep-
tible than any other to fifth COL
umn" dangers. "On the other hand, u
he said, there is nothing in the
Bill of Rights which requires Co.