The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
WHEELER CALLS FOR
IMMEDIATE PEACE
Continued From Page One)

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"Rememper-Hitler has already
been seven months in vainly try
ing to cross twenty miles. If Hit
ler's army can't cross the narrow
English Channel in seven months
his bombers won't fly across the
rockies to Denver tomorrow"
Where Mr.. Roosevelt had spoken
of a peace negotiated on a basis
of the present war situation as one
meaning Nazi domination of the
other countries affected. Wheeler
said that "the offer of a just, rea-
sonable and generous peace will
more quickly and effectively crum-
BILE Hitlerism and break the morale
of the German people than all the
bombers that could be dispatched
over Berlin"
Hitlerism, he said, can 'be de-
stroyed and banished from Europe
only by destroying that which
caused or maintains Nazism." He
went on to quote Lord Lothian,
the late British Ambassador to the
United States, as having said that
the rise of Hitler was "in great
measure" a rebellion against the
determinations of the treaty of
Versailles"
running Toward War
Asserting that the United States
was mo longer trudging along the
road to war; but running" he
said "last night we heard the Presi-
dent promise that there would be
no American expeditionary force
but we received no promises that
our ships and sailors-and our
planes and pilots-might not at
some time within the near future
be cast into the cauldron of blood
and hate that is Europe today"
If Mr.. Roosevelt's logic we're
followed to its conclusion, he said,
I'VE ought Immediately to break
off diplomatic relations with Rus
STA, Italy, Germany, Japan and
other nations whose domestic and
foreign policies we abhor." S
"And where do we 20 from
there?" he asked. "Regardless of
who is proclaimed victor in the
present war-it cannot last forever.
Peace-fleeting though it may be
will eventually come to Europe.
At some time in the f u u r e
representatives of England and
Germany will sit around a table
some time they will agreen upon
peace-and until t a t day, the
world suffers. Each of us from
the President of the United States
to the most humble citizen-should
exert his effort for peace now.
Strange Situation
I'VE have reached a strange sit
uation in America when those who
advocate peace-who do not follow
the party line-are branded ap-
peasers and unwilling tools of the
dictators. This still is a democracy
and American citizens whose be-
llefs vary from those of the gov.
eminent ought not to be howled
down or inundated by threats of
the F. B. I. Free speech still be-
longs to all the people-not just
to a few at the top.
II do not believe that the great
majority of our people are eager
to be embraced by war-and
call upon them not to be afraid to
say so. for one-believe the pol
icy advocated by the intervention
lists is insane because it will lead
to total war-and war is insanity.
Americans, do not let your
selves be swayed by: hysteria.
Do not travel again the road that
you took in 1917. Has this war
a sWeeter odor than The last? Don't
let yourselves be misled by the So.
called notables. Numerically they
are few-a few hundred - even
though they command the newspa-
per headlines. But they do not
speak for the mass of Americans.
They do not represent labor, the
farmer, the youth, the mothers or
the fathers of America. The great
mass of our people are inarticulate
but it is time you were heard.
You must not be driven like sheep
to the s~laughtering pens.
There is a war that I call upon
to enter-a noble war which the
royalty of Europe and our Tory
friends at home are unwilling te
face-a war to end economic in.
equality and poverty and disease il
this, the richest land in the world
Americas war ought to be a wal
against industrial unemployment
and low farm prices"
He went on to quote a famous
statement of the President that q
third of the nation was ill-clothed,
lll-fed and ill-housed, adding tina
unless and until this si+,,o+io, :.