Evening star., 1941-01-03
Any Steps Necessary
To Beat Axis Urged
On Congress
So Sign Telegram
lnstiguted by Douglas
And DR.. Conunt
BY the Associated Press.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-The mo
bilization of America for War-a war
in which we may be fortunate
enough not to sacrifice our blood
if we do sacrifice freely of our
wealth and work with unf1agging
energy" was urged yesterday in an
open letter to Congress signed by
SO persons.
Many of the signatories joined in
recent round-robin telegram to-.
President Roosevelt urging him to
take any steps necessary to defeat
the axis powers.
1--WE believe the axis powers will
be defeated if we, the people of
the United States, do our part
if we give prompt and effective aid
to those countries which are now
holding the axis tyrants at bay"
the letter said.
This does not mean selling them
war materials so long as they can
pay for them and so long as 1t is
convenient for us to produce them"
it added. 1T means turning our
whole productive resources and in
genuity wholeheartedly over to one
Slngle-mlnded purpose =.
1T means subordinating our or
dinary needs to this one greater
need of building ships and planes
and tanks and guns. 1t means Civ
ing these things to those who are
fighting the battle"
Mindful of Risks.
The letter said the signers, act
ing as private citizens and speak
ing only for themselves, cannot ex-
press an opinion as to the specific
measures to be taken"
I'VE are mindful Of the risks in
volved," the letter said. I'VE be-
lieve that these risks must be taken
in order to avoid the greater danger
of an axis victory"
Among the signers were Lewis
w Douglas, former director of the
budget, and DR.. James B. Conant,
president of Harvard University.
who were the instigators of the
round-robin telegram.
Other signers we're: Franklin P.
Adams, newspaper columnist; David
Dubinsky, president of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union; DR.. Harry Gideonse, presi-
dent of Brooklyn College; E. r. Har-
riman, New York banker; DR.. Ernest
M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth
College; Herbert Agar, Louisville
newspaper editor; William M. jeff
ers, president of the Union Pacific
Railroad; James p Warburg, author
and economist; Alexander Wooll-
colt, writer; Robert E. Sherwood,
playwright: Dean G. Acheson, Wash
ington lawyer.
Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor
of Foreign Affairs; Frank Aydelotte.
president of the Institute for Ad-
vanced Study; Frederick P. Bryan,
assistant corporation counsel, New
York; James Byrne, New York law
yer; Henry B Cabot, Boston lawyer;
Cass Garfield, president of Harper
Bros, New York; Grenville Clark,
New York attorney.
Other Signers.
William Chanler, New York cor
poration counsel; Richard E. Daniel
son, Boston; Charles E. Diehl,
president of Southwestern Univer-
sity; Henry S. Drinker. Philadelphia
lawyer; Marshall Field, New York
publisher; Thomas K. Finletter,
New York lawyer; Horace Binney
Hare, Philadelphia.
George L. Harrison, st. Davids, |
Pa; Edwin P Hubble, California
Institute of Technology; Bishop
Henry Hobson, Cincinnati; R. Stur-
giS Ingersoll, Philadelphia lawyer;
Owen johnson, Stockbridge tMasSJ /
author, James NJ. Lands. dean, .
Harvard Law School; A. Lawrence
Lowell, former president, Harvard
University: Goodhue Livingston, jr., .
Health Department, New York;
Robert T. McCracken, Philadelphia
lawyer; Chase Mellen, former Re-
publican county chairman, New
York; Robert A. Millikan, president
of California Institute of Tech
nology.
Walter Mills. New York author:
William A. Nelson, former presi-
dent, Smith College; George Stuart
Patterson, Philadelphia cotton mer-
chant; Lewis Perry. headmaster,
Phillips Exeter Academy; Winfield
w. Rief1er, Institute for Advance
Study; George Rublee, Washington
lawyer; Frank Russell, president,
National Aviation Corp; Maurice B.
Saul, Philadelphia lawyer.
Ellery Sedgewick, former editor.
Atlantic Monthly; Charles Seymour.
president, Yale University; Robert
E. StraWbridge, Philadelphia mer-
chant; Henry P. van Dusen, Union
theological Seminary; Edward Weeks,
editor, Atlantic Monthly; Westmore
Wilcox, Jackson & Curtis, New
York, and Bronson Winthrop, New
York LAWYER