Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
I'm THE NEWS
Dear Mr.. Hearst:

Dear Mr.. Hearst;
r EFT me extend Ia YOU my
heartlest congratulations
- upon your powerful edi-i
toriaI published under the head
ing I'm the News" on July 28th.
I'm The San Francisco Examiner.
mean the article referring 10
the promise under which our boys
were sent 10 military training
camps. less than year ago. and
the governments avowed inten-'
ton OF breaking that promise.
We should be getting used to
broken promises from Washington.
But to some of us, whose roots I'm
America and whose loyalty TO
America 60 back to her very be-
ginnings, IL Is a hard lesson.
The breach of faith with our
sons, and with the fathers and
mothers who love and need them,
is only one more stunning blow,
a series of blows. We mothers
are beginning to feel with Wash
Iington: Nv bom now can we
trust:"
The question OF war, or no war,
is no mere ink-and-paper problem
for the women OF America. You
know, because from the beginning
the movement had your generous
support, that two years ago actual
millions of women banded them
selves into an organization called
"The National Legion of Mothers
OF America" We who were char
ter members Of IL were working,
just a year ago, toward one end.
IL was to obtain from the presi-
Dental candidates of both the
great parties a promise that under
no circumstances would American
men be sent to fight in foreign
wars.
We felt II great triumph, and
more than one OF us humbly
thanked her God, when those
promises were eagerly and repeat
edly accorded us. Both Mr.. Roose-
welt and Mr.. Willkie could not
reiterate with sufficient solemnity
their plans to confine our fighting
TO defense Of our own country,
should that need arise.
So that II is with a sense of
stupefaction and shame that we
have come to zee that our efforts,
our campaigns, our meetings, our
prayers were wasted on men who
regarded these promises as -lally.
pops passed out to clamorous
children. The spirit seems to have
been keep the women quiet ant
haul In the votes, and afterwart
we can do what We like
Mr.. Willkie has since airily re
ferred to his promise as cam
paign oratory." Mr.. Roosevelt
singuIarly silent on the matter o
his promise, has taken 10 sucl
verbal abuse of all OF us who hav,
not changed that IL Is impossible,
to believe that he has not changed
We, who are demanding now
exactly what was pledged to us
and nothing more. are branded as
appeasers, Nazis, isolationists and
copperheads. 1 challenge any one
to find In the position OF the
National Legion of Mothers OF
America or the America First
Committee one single thing that
was not included in the campaign
platform a year ago.
The situation, as far as we are
concerned, has not altered. But
America has slipped from the
proud place she once held as the
friend of all the world, the nation
that had tried peace with her
neighbors and found that II
worked.
Foreign propagandists may roam
our county at large today, plant.
ing fears and hates In our people
But the native born, the Ameri-
cans bred to the glorious heritage
of independence and self-confi.
dence. are refused public halls
are classified as simple" II 1,
simple" evidently, to believe ir
our statesmen any more.
Twenty years ago. when we hat
quarreled with no nation. when W.
were prosperous and content, we
Z were told hastily that England