Evening star., 1941-01-01


other night?" he asked
Don't YOU mean Burt Wheeler?'
oh, sure the laTynX was the
tOnsils Of Senator Wneeer. but the
voice was the roar Of old ThuNdcr-
Bird himself You can't miss h5
touch. Reform America he SAYS,
and don't go hunting trouble
abroad It's like SAYING because
little Willie has the flu, poDpa's got
to give up his job at the factory %
as to stay home shaking the theE-
mometer"
We'll" 7 suggested, how about
the speech? What's your slant on
it?"
He took a long swallow and sig
nailed Pee Wee Tor another Scotch.
I'm glad to see that Burt wheeler
has become an interVentlOnlst at
last" he observed.
I objected that I thought the
Senator from Montana was an iSola-
zionist. the only one who had been
totally washed uD by the sad events
Of the last IS months.
Not an Isolationist.
"Naw.' objected my acquaintance.
"Au iscIatonIst would say what
happens IN Europe IS none Of cur
business. We have no concern with
the details of any European peace.
since We have no part IN suv Euro
pean war. What is i to Us If they
kill and prosecute each other for
racial or religious reasons? Let's
tend TO our own knitting and let EN-
stew in their own juice
But isn't that what Wheeler
said?"
The old man snorted. He did
not! He proposed a polnt-by-pOint
detailed settlement for Europe.
He set up boundaries, he shifted
territories ne transferred c0.ou.c-,
he proposed religious ana racial
guarantees. he recommended that
We amputate the British Umpire by
taking away the Suez Canal lie
acted as though he v9s ancth-r
Woodrow Wilson. setting on 10
write another Trea " OF Versailles.
And if that isn't intervention II
Europe's wars. if that isn't NEEDING
in the internal affairs Of the wicked
Old World, I'm a Naz.'
Where 90 you think that leaves
Wheeler?' I asked. Does that make
him an appeaser or just a pro-
Nazl?"
The Phrase War-MOnger.'
The old man sighed. Bounding
Burt may be a pure and noble
patriot he said. He says so him
self. But any guy that uses the
phrase 'War-monger' the way he
does is acting for Adolf Hitler c.
history's 4 liar 'War-ronger' Is Il
phrase which bears the t-adoms~.
Made III Gcrmanvt The Na-is use,
IL TO a.tc~- ana Cl-cr7Git ever
foreign leader VINO tried to s.~rl
u t0g his country rights. I.~-
Ca'l0r, S-Hcs q Wa--ElCI-Cr, t0rr
called Reynaud a War-mongcr, they
called Churchill War-mouger and
they are calling Roosevelt a War-
monger. The only guys the Nazi3
really like are nice, flexible men like
Laval in France. Chamberlain in
England and Burt Wheeler, Rush
Holt and Jawn Lewis in the U. S. A."
Keeping Out of War.
Still" I argued, there's some
thing in what Burt Wheeler said
about God blessing America if only
We keep out of war"
The old man closed his ewes.
Il think" he said. that I prefer
the way A. E Houseman put il in
The Shropshire Lad Here's how
it goes
"'Get We the sons your father
got
And God Will save the Queen!"
Meaning what?" I asked.
Meaning" said the old man in
the corner Of the Press Club bar.
meaning that if YOU young fellows
had about 10 per cent Of the nerve of
US old guys you wouldn't let Wheeler
and that gang sell the American
people the idea that COWardise is A
sound policy for man, mouse or
Nation.
Anyhow" he added. Il never did
care for eggnog. It always makes
me feel as though Id swallowed a
mink coat
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