The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-03
HOUSE TAXES UP
 AID TO BRITAIN
CContinued from Page D
would give the president alone eth a.nirin,n .,rrnr. r,nnnn ol. rrrnrO

No hnOckOut CnamcS
 LaFollette declared that unless the United States is prepared to furnish manpower to Britain, that nation has no chance of delivering the smashing knocxout the admin istration is talking about"
 The pending measure means the initiation of an outright war policy because, he said, MT. Roosevelt in- dicated in his fireside chat that, the United States would guarantee the aid needed by Great Britain to achieve a smashing victory"
 LaFollette siad that in conver- Sation with former French Premier Edouard Daladier in February or March, 1889, he was informed that Fance expected money, materials and men" from this country to fight off Germany.
 He said it was the "sheerest sort of nonsense to argue that the Brit ish are looking out for our interests, that they are giving their blood and treasure to protect our way of life"
 Britain is fighting because her very existence is at stake" he add ed, "just as six or seven months be- fore the outbreak of war she made deal with Hitler Germany against American interests when she thought her trade supremacy was at stake." He referred to the so- called Anglo-G German Dusseldorf trade agreement.
 Will Never Come Here.
 La Toilette said he was convinced that the Germans never will come over here until and unless our eco- homie and social life is SO exhausted and pulverized that we get some kind of Hitler over here"
 "The attack won't come from without-it will come from within, as it did in France" he said.
 Sen, Tom Connally, D., Tex, asked La Toilette whether he visited Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during his European tour in 1889. La Fol- lette replied that he made no at tempt to see them because he did not wish his picture to be taken with either of the dictators and then transmitted to this country where a false interpretation might be placed on it.
 La Toilette pleaded, with every atom of my being" that American people cease listening to persistent statements that it is weak and can- not fight Germany, either econom- ically or physically. He also dis counted frequent statements that the United States would not be able to compete with German-con- trolled Europe for the worlds trade markels.
 Tn spite of the import restric- tions Germany forced upon the Latin countries and the subsidies the Reich gave her producers, Germany had a difficult time matching prices and she never succeeded in equalling the quality of United States pro- ducts" he said, quoting from an article in the New York Times.
 Big Job Ahead
 The United States, he said, will be unable to do the big job ahead if our people are whipped up with hySteria' and weakened by defeatism, if our public officials drain our by assuring us that we can't stand on our own feet"
 "Tell healthy man often enough that he looks pale and sick, and before you know it you have pale and sick man," he added. And the same holds true for collections of people who live as nation.
 How much faith do you suppose the Latin American countries will have in us, as opposed to NaZi Ger many, after hearing us announce every hour of the day that we're weak and helpless, that we would be an easy prey for the mighty Ger mans. After all, human nature be- ing what it is, the people of the southern countries will turn to the strongest and not the self-con- fessed weakling for protection and trade.
 Every official argument for this bill-that we are weak and helpless, that We are buying time with British blood, that we would be beaten to our knees in case of physical in- vasion or economic warfare pounds at Americas faith in herself"
 La Toilette said he recently dis cussed the issues behind the pro- posed legislation with Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and heard the word "appeaser" used to des- cribe opponents of the administra- tion's foreign policy
 AppeaSerS of Old
 Most of us remember, of course, that those against whom the slur appeaser was directed only a year or two ago-the Chamberlains and Daladiers and Lavals-were the very men with whom the administration was cooperating so actively at that time" he said
 Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., sought to bring out that Eng lands leadership had changed since La Toilette noted pro-Nazi sympa- thies in some British quarters.
 La Toilette compared the pres ence of Labor Leader Ernest Bevin hL GAA5 AdA1O D wal CdO1ilCC WAlli tiAC role of labor leader Sidney Hillman, high in MT. Roosevelt's defense ad- -Ie said the presence of both was mere window dress ing"
 Rayburn, in predicting a big ma jority for the bill, said that Repre- sentative Jere Cooper, D., Tenn, would preside over the house during of the measure, since the speaker never presids when the chamber sits as a committee of the whole.
 Rayburn disputed Republicans fears that. the bill would grant too much power to the president. He said that the president has tre- nendouS emergency powers as con- i,a Ar