The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-22

gasoline for American consump- tion. Nevertheless we were told that the unconstitutional trans ference of oil tankers to Great Britain will make it impossible to maintain full delivery of gasoline to the distributors along our Atlantic seaboard.
 It is only the other day that an editorial in the New York Daily News exposed this fallacy, intimated that the gas crisis was a phony one and called for Congressional investigation of the entire question. First of all the Daily News pointed out that not more than 200 tankers are need- ed by Great Britain to transport the annual shipment of 91,000,- 600 barrels of oil, from either the United States or the Dutch East Endies, which she needs for war time operations. Then the Daily News quoted the following facts from the Wall Street Journal.
 'At the outset of the war;" So stated the Wall Street Journal, Great Britain had 498 tankers. She later acquired 400 from Bel giutn, Nor way, Holland and France, giving her a total of 898. About 100 of these have been sunk, leaving a balance of 798 ships, not counting the new tank CTS she has launched since the war began. This leaves her with more than 800 tankerS in addi- tion to those she has for her wartime requirements"
 Tankers Transferred
 In other words, the transfer ence of taY1kers by the United States to Great Britain was a gift of tankers which Great Brit ain did not need. It was 8 gift which created a shortage, not of gasoline, but of gasoline trans portation against the prior inter- ests of the citizens of the Unit, ed States of America. In view of the fact that Great Britain needs only 200 tankers for her shipments of wartime oil and in view of the fact that Great Brit ain now possesses 500 tankerS in excess of what she needs, well may the Daily News ask why it : was necessary for us to give the British 50 tankers last May and why it is necessary for us to promise her 100 more tankers in the future. Well may the Daily News ask: "Is it all 8 big and disagreeable show, put on for the purpose of making people war-conSciouS? To that question we answer an absolute and un- qualified and resentful yes. The gas crisis and the aluminium epi- sode are but two of the sinister attempts of the war party in our national administration to de- Stroy the peaceful psychology of the American people in order to plunge us into war.
 Finally, the war party in our national administration is at- tempting to drag us into war py making the foreign policy of America totally subservient 10 the foreign policy of Great Brit ain. That was the purpose of the Presidents inSistence upon the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill. That was the purpose of the Presidents meeting with Chur- chill at sea. The exclusion of American newspapermen from that meeting coupled with the exclusive presence of British 2 newspapermen is indicative of the un-American surrender of our foreign policy to 8 foreign nation by the President of the United States of America. We re- spectfully submit that the place of the President of the United States is on the Potomac and not on the Prince of Wales. We respectfully submit that MT. Roosevelt is President of the United States of America and not the Siamese twin of Winston Churchill for the policing of the world.
 Not Our War!
 We deny that Britain's war is our war. The present British war Is like every other British war throughout the centuries gone by. It is a war for colonies and raw materials and money and imperialism. It is war for eco- homie mastery of the European continent. It Is Q war to retain some of the i'll gotten gains which England secured through the last war. It is an economic war between European and Asiat- ic powers who were fighting twenty-five years ago and will still abe fighting, with different alliances but with the same eco- homie objectives. every twenty five years from now until the sovereign people of Europe and Asia oust the war lords who per- iodically doom them to disaster. We deny that the foreign policy of Great Britain Is our foreign policy. We want nothing to do with Q foreign policy that has