The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

What Wheeler didn't disclose was that he and the other isola- tionists are secretly prepared to wage filibuster to prevent pass age of draft act. They believe that with an election in the off1ng the threat of a knock down legis- lature battle will frighten the politicos and make them drop the bil until after November.
 Then, they figure, it will be too late to do anything until next spring, by which time they are confident developments will show that such a drastic step is not needed.
 This is a tremendous gamble, of course, with the nations se- curity as the stake. But that doesn't faze Wheeler and his iso- lationist friends. They have been gambling ike this for months, all ways guessing wrong but stil in- sisting they are right.
 They derided Roosevelt's warning that a European war was imminent and when war did break, they pooh -poohed it as a 'phoney" conflict. They fought his repeal of the arms embargo and when finally de- feated, have fought every move to aid first the French and now the British.
 Because of overwhelming pub- lie sentiment the Wheeler bloc has trod a wary course on the various rearmament measures. But they are going to take of the wraps on the compulsory draft bill and they may be able to block 1t.
 CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTORS
 Congressional committee hear ings on the Burke-Wadswor bill for peacetime conscription have brought sharp division of opinion.
 Appearing before the Senate Military Affairs committee. peace leader Frederick J. Libby declared the bill would fill our jails and prisons, not only with young men but with their pastors and with church leaders"
 Retorted war veteran Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana: Then we'll build more prisons.o
 Note-The bill now contains notifications exempting con- sciehtious objectors. Responsible for them were Harold Evans, E. Raymond Wilson, and Paul French, all members of the So- ciety of Friends (Quakers).
 FACTORY DOOR CAMPAIGN
 Wendell Willkie plans to use the same dynamic tactics in his elec- tion campaign as those which won him the COP nomination. In addition to touring the country by train, auto and plane, he also has up his sleeve some novel vote-woo- ing methods.
 One is what he calls factory door" meetings; snappy 15-min- ute gatherings during lunch pe- riods at large industrial plants, at which he will make a short talk and then hold a question: and-answer session with the workers. On the list for such unique rallies are Detroit auto plants, steel mills in Ohio and Pennsylvania, coa mines and sev- eral other mass production indus tries.
 'T want to go straight to the factory door," Willkie told his campaign advisers. 'T want to carry my message straight to the workshops of labor as we'll as from the usual campaign platforms"
 Note-GoP chiefs will not un- Timber their big campaign howit- gers until after Labor Day Will kie will formally launch the cam paign with a Labor Day address at g place yet to be picked, and from that moment on the country will witness one of the hottest and most intensive campaigns in his- tory.
 CAPITAL oHAFF
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