Evening star., 1940-09-10
Bar Association Rift
threatened by Row
Over Third Term
Resolution in Committee
Attacks RooseveIt's Aims
As 'Subversive'
As 'Subversive'
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. io.-A
resolution condemning a third term
for President Roosevelt was sub
mitted today to the American Bar
Associations Resolutions COMMITTEES
and Immediately precipitated a con-
troversy within the committee.
Arthur w. Brouillet Of San Fran
cisco announced he favored tabling
the resolution as the committee
| scheduled debate on the proposal
for later in the day. Another COM
mittee member, who asked that his
name be withheld, said that 'ff you
| want to break up the American Bar
Association, just report this reSolu-
| ton out"
The resolution attacked the Presi-
dents third-term aspirations as
"subversive of the principles" on
which the Nation was founded and
indorsed constitutional amend
ment TO give future Presidents one
Six-year term. II asked support for
such bill introduced in the Senate
by Senator Burke, Democrat, Of
Nebraska.
Former Envoy Speaks.
Sponsors of the resolution were
Edward C. Bailly Of New York and
H. Graham Morrison of Bristol,
Tenn. If approved by the Resolu-
tions Committee, it would 60 to the
associations House Of Delegates,
representing the organizations l60,-
900 members
Earlier, William S. Culbertson,
one-time Ambassador to Chile, called
for an end to "pretense and hy-
procrisy" in extending aid to Eng
land and declared that:
Perhaps we should, in a world Of
aggression and undeclared wars,
adopt an opportunist policy which
would allow us to do anything that
We wish to accomplish as our OBJ
jective. But I don't want it done
under the fiction of tortured law
Of neutrality. II one law
or treaty can be explained away for
a good cause, another law or treaty
can be explained away for a bad
| cause"
IL Want to Save Law"
In his discussion of international
law he said he was mot presenting
an argument against the barter Of
the so destroyers for the leases on
| British territory .. I realize
that this seems to be justified as a
measure of self-defense. 1t is In line
with our policy to strengthen the
British buffer between us and the
force-polltics OF Germany. -
Il want to save the British En-
pire, but I want to save law,
/ too
Therefore, let us not try to Jus
MY our unneutral acts by Law. Let
US either say frankly that We are
not neutral; that We are not gov
erned by the accepted rules of neu-
trallry; that we are released from
doing so by the violence and the
| lllegallty of Germany and her asso-
clates, and that we feel free to take
such steps as are necessary to pre-
serve our territory, our institutions
/ and our way of life"
Francis Biddle, United States So
hcltor general, warned against sus-
pending civil liberties until the
emergency is over because we
/ might never get them back"
In a speech for delivery before
the associations junior bar con-
ference Mr.. Biddle said:
1T is imperative to defend our
selves against the doctrines of
Nazism, FaScism and Communism.
each equally opposed to our way of
thinking and each looking to a COM
mon destructive purpose.
But we must not adopt as instru-
ments Of defense the very weapons
with which We are challenged. The
way to protect democracy is not
by totaltarian methods. e Any
displacement of orderly constitu-
tional process must. of necessity, be
a step away from democracy"
N~Ik n..A-.LL