Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
Wheeler CHARGES
New Deal waging
Terror Campaign
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tribution of the cards as coming
very near the line of subversive
activities against the United States,
if not treason"
President Roosevelt subsequently
said that Wheeler had gone too
far" and was on dangerous
ground.
Asserting that the cards contain
ed reprinted excerpts from the
congressional record, Wheeler asked
Can it be that the record is a
treasonable document? That reading
it is subversive activity?'
He added that Stimson apparent
ly had taken his definition of treas
on from the PHILOSOPHERS and
preachings of Hitler and Stalin."
When Wheeler finished, Sen. Hir-
am W. Johnson, r. Calf, said he
approved Wheeler's fight for free
speech and added that if ever the
time arrived when a cabinet officer
could stifle free speech I'VE have
reached the last prop of the repub-
lie"
For Gods sake" he said, "have
we reached the point in this gov
ernment when citizen cannot
petition the duly constituted author
tiles?
Il blame the senate if it stands
here supinely and fails to denounce
this unholy attack on our brother
colleague"
johnson said that if Wheeler goes
to a concentration camp III go
with him and there will be two OF
us standing together"
stick to it, brother Wheeler
johnson said. He quoted Rudyard
Kipling in tribute to Wheeler:
$50 here's to you, Fuzzy Wuzzy.
I'm your home in the Sudan,
you're a poor benighted heathen
But first class fighting mani
The crowded galleries applauded
when Johnson concluded by saying
"Hurrah for Wheeler"
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
raped his gavel and yelled for or
der in a voice that could be heard
above the clamor.
Wheeler then discussed what he
said were elements of a carefully
planned smear campaign by the
warmongers to silence opposition
to war" First, he said, Gen. George
C. Marshall, chief of staff, said that
efforts to arouse selectees and ma
tional guardsmen against extension
of their service period amounted to
sabotage" Wheeler pointed out
that Marshall did not say who the
saboteurs were.
PLAN OF ACTION
Wheeler said that Stimson, after
a "sly unofficial announcement" to
the press, made his charge of near
treason" The following day, he said
President Roosevelt Joined the
wolves of war in their slanderous
attack" and created new newspaper
headlines unfavorable to Wheeler.
Whatever temporary success this
smear campaign has enjoyed can be
attributed to the artful planning
and falsity of its foundation" he
said.
This attackWa not made against
a particular United States senator
or a particular individual 1t was
not made because of what appeared
on the card or to whom they wert
addressed. 1t was made to silence
all those who oppose and fight oul
entry into war. 1t is part OF a pro-
gram to terrify the American people
into submission-to make them ac-
cept participation in foreign war
IN TRAGIC STATE
1SSACiihiS " illo COllJtIlJlOIl OIld
only three antiWar postcards were
known to have reached soldiers
Wheeler said:
'If the morale of the United State.
army can be either threatened ol
destroyed by three cards urging ad.
dresses to write the presiden
against going TO war, our nationa
defenses are in tragic state.
Wheeler said.
Recalling that 10 years ago, wher
he first came to the senate. he wa
indicted in Montana and Washing
ton in "smear" attempt by Attor
ney General Harry Daugherty aris
ing out of the Teapot Dome inves
tigation, in which he was active
Wheeler said the new charges b
Stimson would "wither' in the ligh