The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-08-07

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considered necessary to justify the
need for coriscripting civilians for
military training, the committee
majority said that such q necessity
has been demonstrated by the huge
peacetime defense appropriat ions
recently made by. congress.
1.-THE COMMITTEES believes the en-
actment Of this bill necessary for the
adequate protection Of the cherished
heritages Of a nation" the report
concluded.
The minority report called for q
fair trial Of the voluntary method Of
enlistment but asserted that the
group would support CONSUMPTION II
the voluntary plan should demon
strably fail.
voluntary enlistment should be
given a thorough trial before any
Hitlerized method of peacetime con.
scription with its far-reaching linz
| plication Of militarisrn and irnper-
ialisni Is adopted as q permanent
policy in America" the minority de-.
clare6.
S66, 1000 AT Once
The mobilization bill would per-
NIT President Roosevelt to place
100000 National GuardSmen and
reservists in active service for an
extended period, probably one year.
Sen. Alva B. Adams, D., Colo,
planned to offer am amendment
that would restrict the use Of
guardsmen and reservistS to the
Unite States, Its territories and pos
sessions. The bill in its present form
would permit the men being sent to
any point in the western hen1i-
sphere.
Administration leaders thought
that this proposal might start a
full discussion Of administration
foreign policy and bring demands
for a statement Of the territory
the United States intends 10 defend
should there be aggression aimed
at this hemisphere. .
Adams conceded there was little
chance that his amendment would
be accepted.
Several other amendments also
| will be offered.
Embittered Debate
The debate begins In an atfnos-
phere made tense by yesterdays
embitter discussion. Not since 1887
when President Roosevelt,s Supreme
Court reorganization plan was be-
ing considered, has the Senate
heard such an exchange Of personal
compliments as those that Sens.
Rush D. Holt, D., w. ", and Sfier-
man Minton, D., Ind, directed at
one another.
Minton said that Holt comes
from a Stacker family" Holt said
Minton was a mud and filth throw
err" He implied that he was also a
''liar" and a "rat."
In radio address last night,
Holt charged the administration
with program Of "subterfuge and
hypocrisy" to "get us into the Eu-
ropearl war;"
Under present plans, Mr.. Roose-
welt would call out 5000 of the
$4,000 guardsmen for extensive
training in modern military meth
DDS as soon as Congress grants him
the authority. Many OF the militia.
men would be. used as instructors
for the new conscripts, 100000 of
whom would be pressed into service
by next spring.
Col. Adler Answers
| New York, August z - Cup -
Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general
manager Of the New York Times
today answered the charges leveled
at him and others by Sen. Rush ID
Holt, D., w. Va. on the Senate
floor yesterday.
Holt charged that the drive fol
compulsory military training was
started at meeting at the Harvard
Club on May ~, at which Col. Adler
was present. TO this, Col. Adler
answered that this had been q
meeting of the Military Training
Camps Association, that the meet
ing was publicised In newspapers,