The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-22
NYE CALLS FOR
F. R. TO RESIGN
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cognizance of charges that he was
creating a war cabinet" in APP.
pointing Henry L. Stimson to sue
coed Woodring and Col. F r a n k
knox, like Stimson, a republican,
to the post of secretary of the
navy. The chief executive told re-
porters that there are some people
who think in terms of patriotic mo-
tives and some who think with par
tisan motives.
Knox asserted at Chicago that
the country was in danger be
cause we r. inadequately pre-
pared' and that his only aim was
to help "get ready for any emery
ency" in a wholly non : political
way.
The senate military committee
will hold a hearing on Stimson's
nomination in a few days, with
Stimson as a witness, while the
naval committee will start consid-
ering Knox's nomination tomorrow.
Senator Clark D-Mo) served no.
tice that he would introduce a reso-
luton calling on President Roose-
velt to make public Woodring's let
ter of resignation-a letter which
the White House has called too
PERSONAL to publish. Clark said
he believed Woodring had been
SACRIFICED" because he opposed
weakening U. S. defenses by turn
ing arms over to the Allies.
The senate debate became a fur
ious ~free-for-all, with Senator Pep
per (D-Fla) suggesting that part
of Jul navy be turned over to
Great Britain, to be manned by
British seamen and used to ''crush
Hitler"
"Hitler ought to be drawn and
CHARTERED and his blood spilled
over the nations he has trampled
down." he shouted, as he attacked
the champions of appeasement."
Senator Holt DIV Va) replied
that danger to the United States
came not from "isolationists" but
from 'interventionists" who want
to tear Hitler apart a nd scatter his
blood in every stream"
"I'm not quite that bloodthirsty
or hysterical yet" he added. 81
don't want to see that happen to
anyone as mucn as I despise
them"
When Holt asked whether turn.
ing naval ships over to the British
would not be an act of war, Pepper
replied:
1T would depend upon how Hit
Ter was feeling that morning."
Walsh Opposes War.
Meantime, Chairman Walsh ID.
Mass) of the senate naval com.
mittee, in a vehement speech in
the senate, asserted that he would
walk out of this chamber-put
my resignation on the desk'' rath-
er than vote to enter any European
war. 1t was all right, he asserted,
for private American companies
to aid the Allies, but II want our
own army and navy to keep clear
of this European war;"
"Have we lost the concept OF
the awful, awful, awful consequen.
ces of war on American" he cried.
care the mothers who would have
to send their sons demanding that
we 60 to W ar? Where does the de-
mand come from? It comes from
a limited number of men of prop
erty.
who is going to bear his breast?
It's the common man who has no
friend in the United States senate"
He said his serious concern was
that this nations defenses be as
great as possible.
II want every gun, every bomb,
every boat available if we call the
common man," he shouted.
Senator Pepper O-Fla) declared
he knew of no one in the senate
who wants to take this country
to war" but he assailed the TOUT
worn military tradition that the
only way to defend yourself is to
wait until the other fellow hits
YOU"
France Waited
France, he said, waited behind
a supposedly i~mpregnable system
OF d%efenses" and today 1.-The
French republic lies PROSTATE in
process of being ravaged by the
dictator who is anathema in the
eyes of every Christian and true
democrat"
During the senate discussion Sem