Evening star., 1940-06-20
Opposition Raised
To Allies Aid Plank
In 6. 0. P. Platform
Five of London Aides
Reported BoIkine at
Definite Statement

Reported Baking at
Definite Statement
- the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-Op-
position was reported developing to-
day in the Republican National
Convention Resolution Committee
to any plank advocating United
States assistance to the European
democracies.
ALI M. Landon, chairman of the
subcommittee on national defense
which will write such plank, an
nounced he had postponed a sched-
uled meeting of his group until to-
morrow because of developments.
He did not amplify his statement,
but it was understood that at least
five members of the 11-member SUBJ
committee had banded together to
oppose the party committing itself
to any type of aid to England or
France.
The five were represented as favor
ing some type of assistance, but
believing definite platform plank
would put Republicans in the posi-
ton of indirectly indorsing policies
of the Roosevelt administration.
Five Are Named.
The five in opposition to Euro
pean assistance plank were named
as Thomas O'Brien Flynn, West Vir-
ginia; Charles E. Rendlen, Missouri;
Orville Burlington, Texas; Henry p.
Fletcher, Rhode Island, and Morley
Griswold, Nevada.
The Resolutions Committee, di-
vided into a series of subcommittee,
earlier in the day settled down to
the business of writing 1910 plat
form.
Separate committees were created
to work out declarations on agricul-
ture, tariff and reciprocal trade; re-
lief, unemployment and social secu-
rity; money, banking and public
finance: Government reorganization
and related topics; national devel-
opment and related topics; Govern
ment relation to business, and labor.
The committee had already set
up subcommittees on foreign affairs
and to do the final drafting job.
In the first decision on a series of
delegate contests the National Com
mittee voted, So to 6, to give con-
vention seats to the 12-man Florida
delegation, headed by J. Leonard
Replogle, national committeeman.
and c. H. McNulty, party State
chairman.
Decision Temporary.
The contest was brought by
group headed by Allen E. Walker of
Winter Haven, Fla. The decision is
temporary, since the Credentials
Committee and the convention itself
must pass on it.
The National Committee also
voted without roll call to seat the
so-called regular" delegation of IL
from Louisiana headed by John E.
jackson, national committeeman,
and Warren Kearny, both of New
Orleans.
The opposing delegation headed
by James L. Woods failed to put in
an appearance to push the contest.
Dewey forces claimed a victory in
the Florida decision and Taft sup
porters claimed an advantage in the
Louisiana decision.
Meanwhile, the Resolutions Com
mittee was confronted with a de-
mand that it declare itself against |
any measures that might lead Amer
lea into war.
1t came from a delegation Of rs
Republican House members, led by
Representative Fish Of New York.
Earlier, John L. Lewis, the c. I. o.
chieftain, in an extemporaneousl
address, had touched off the days
high spot with q declaration that
the Presidents proposal for COM
pulsory national service was "a fan
tastic suggestion from mind in
full intellectual retreat"
Pulling Punches Opposed.
One after another they assailed
administration policies and urged
the committee to pull no punches in
the forthcoming campaign.
Draft Roosevelt and he'll draft |
you," Representative Johns of Wis
consin proposed as a slogan.
These are hokum grabbers run
ming the Government now," Repre-
sentative Bender Of Ohio COM
mented, and Representative Bradley
OF Michigan asked:
Have you forgotten that they
haven't paid for what we sold them
in the last war?'
In an unscheduled appearance be-
fore the committee Col. Robert R.
Mccormick, publisher of the Chicago
Tribune, described the Presidents
proposal for compulsory national
service as insanity and nothing
less
The vanguard of the onrush of
delegates heard last night that Wen
dell l.. Willkie had named Repre-
sentative Halleck of Indiana head
OF a f1ve-man strategy board to press
the utility executive drive for the
presidential nomination.
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