The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-23
Defend America By Aiding Allies Wins
 Enthusiastic Response In Waterbury
More Than 800 Petitions Signed By Prominent Wm Sympathetic to Brs Cause-Obves Outlined in Formal Statement Nations Lead
 Given Spirited Endorsement of Campaign

Waterpury prancn or the COmmlttee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. More than 800 petitions are now in circulation here. Funds and material assistance have been gen- erously assured.
 Help Britain to Stop Hitler" is the theme of the second spirited appeal made to Americans by Rob- ert Ernmet Sherwood, descendant of the famous Irish patriot. Pro- ceeds of MT. Sherwood's play There Shall Be No Night, have been given to the national committee. Mir. Sherwood in arousing American interest in the cause of Britain, first penned the appeal "Stop Hitler" " It attracts worldwide attention. His second appeal appearing in tonight's Democrat is as equally potent and enlightening.
 The Waterbury chapter with ineadquarters at 190 Grand street would be pleased to enroll Water burians in the cause of helping and defending America by lending aid NOW to the Allies.
 Elizabeth Wade White is chair man of the local petitions commit tee She is being assisted by the following prominent citizens of Wa terbury:E Marion Hunt, vice-chair- man; Elizabeth Curtis, Mrs. John A. Brodie, Rev. Thomas L. Sinclair, Robertson Boyd, Mrs. John H. Fos- ter, willis M. Tate, Mrs. Edward T. Carmody, Mollie Cullen, Mildred Harmon, Mrs. Alfred L. Hart, Mrs. Edith R. Scovill, Mrs. Joseph Het- gel, Mrs. Clyde Jennings, Helen Miner. Mrs. Edwin K. English, Mrs. Russell Webber, Jean Phillips, Mrs. Nathan M. Pierpont, Mrs. J. Heartt Raub, Mrs. J. Harold Root, Edwin c. Northrop, Lucian D. Warner, Mrs. Mark L. Sperry, Jr, Mrs. Charles Durfee, Marion Peasley, Polly Kenway, Mrs. H. w. Wild and Mrs. Francis Ayres.
 A formal explanation of the prin- eiples of the organization is as fol- lows:
 The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is enlisted and organized for the duration; for the duration of this world war and for the peace that shall follow the, war. Our chief objective is to foster, aid, protect and guarantee, so far as we are able within the neighborly capa- city of men and nations, the rights, privileges and duties of de- mocracy. We are organized to uphold democracy.
 FIRST OBJECTIVE
 An Moral and Material Aid Which May Legally Be Given to Main tain England as Our First Line
 of Defense.
 To that end we feel that the first and vital duty before us is to give legally what moral and material aid this country may ex- tend to Great Britain in her fight for life. For if the British Elm pire, with all the weight of its democratic economic power and it's military strength and naval force, should fall the United States would be alone in 8 warlike world. It is inconceivable that the richest land on earth should not be the subject of an envy that would lead to attack. If war is not checked and thwarted in Great Britain, war will come in- evitably to the United States. Be- cause our first line of defense lies around the coast of Britain, sn this crisis, we should turn to Great Britain in her hour of dan ger and agony with such neigh borly help as public opinion in the United States may seem legally to justify. To make American public opinion felt in Congress and in the White House in this tragic hour will be the first ob- jective of our Committee. For 150 years, from the days of Kossuth, Kosciusko, Garibaldi, Steuben, wherever men have fought for freedom. they have been support ed in this country by every pos sible moral and material aid. We cannot change this policy now, when to change 1t will be merely to appease tyrants and bring our- selves face to face with the ruth- less, warlike forces of the worlds dictators who view our riches with greed and our freedom with con- tempt. Here then is our first ob- jective:
 A. To supply Great Britain with such planes, guns and ships as she may legally purchase from our armed forces as soon as pos- sible and in the greatest possible quantities without injuring our national defense.
 B. To make available to Great Britain our surplus food supplies.
 c. The immediate effective ex- pansion of our preparedness pro- gram so that we may safely aid Great Britain in every legal way possible and quickly, asa the by- product of that expansion.
 D. When or if 1t becomes necessary, to assist in bringing mothers. children and old people from the British Isles to the Western Hemisphere.
 E. To crystalline public opinion which would encourage Congress to give the president whatever legal authority necessary to &C., complish these ends, or to amend to whatever extent necessarye existing legislation that interferes with giving such aid to the Allies.
 F. To remove difnculties pro- hibiting Americans from volun- teering in the Allied armies.
 c. To establish. if necessary, with the approval of other mem bers of the Western Hemisphere, q trusteeship over French and Dutch possessions until the full independence of those countries is restored and they are able to exercise free sovereignty over those territories.
 H. To guard against war ma- terials reaching aggressor nations