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Special b THE DETROIT TINES
ANN ARBOR, May 6.--Americl
Is on the road that leads TO fascisn
and war, Senator Burton X
Wheeler said in an address her
last night.
The Montana senator. speaking
at Hill Auditorium TO 5000 Uni
versity of Michigan students ant
townspeople, said that Presiden
Roosevelt has surrounded himsel
with advisers who preach democ
racy but practice the technique o
Hitler and the dictators.
Senator Wheeler said:
They are for the most part
men who have opposed the
Roosevelt domestic policy.
The President does not call
them high priced lobbyists. Fas-
cists, and economic royalists II
they subscribe 60 intervention I'm
q foreign war. II they urge a
foreign policy TO pillow under
American boys In Asia, Africa
and Australia. they are great
liberals and patriots a Ia Wen
dell WflIkie.
KNOX AND sTIMsoN
"And Secretary OF Navy Colo
mel Knox and Secretary Of War
Stimson, they are for war now
no they are progressives. These
new presidential ad Users are
largely men who are willing TO
send American boys 20 foreign
battlefields. They are willing to
sacrifice American lives TO save
the dictators OF Poland, Greece
and Hungary. They demand. at
all costs, that we preserve the
way Of life in China and In India,
where hundreds Of millions Of
people live In abject poverty
and virtual slavery"
Charging that many of The
Presidents advisers believe in gov,
eminent by men as distinguished
from government by law, he said
They would pack the courts
Of the United States. They would
have Congress delegate its pow
ers TO the President.
They would violate the con-
stitutional provision that only
Congress can declare war by
sending conveys into combat
areas They would do this de-
spite the fact the President says
conveys mean shooting and
shooting means war.
HYMNS OF HATE
They would have the PresI-
dent repudiate his promises TO
the American people not to send
American boys into foreign
wars. They sing the hymns OF
hate 20 brighten the people.
They talk about our way OF life,
but every act ~ a step away
from republican government
and toward fascisrn and dicta-
torship."
Surveys Of opinion on the
campus here show from s. 10 81
per cent of the students opposed
TO entering the war. Senator
Wheeler said. adding:
1T will be upon the youth Of
America that the cost of war
bears most heavily. IL viii he
YOU who will march in long
lines. II will be you whose
bodies will dangle from barbed
wire In Europe, Africa or Asia.
students at the University
OF Michigan and the youth OF
America have not yet assumed
the responsibilities that come 10
more mature persons. You have
more courage and less social
ambition. You are not intimi-
dated 20 easily. The Ef3I holds
less terrors. Internal revenue
agents have not begun to haunt
you. You do not yet fear the
loss OF a sale. the loss Of clients,
patients, or business; you have
not begun TO ape the British.
"some great banker does not
hold your economic life In the
palm Of his hand. You are not
afraid of pressure. You are
..mericans--the kind who made
this nation a democracy in
17f6."
FINDS SENTIMENT RISING
Anti.war sentiment is growing
and interventionists are so alarmed
that they have urged the Presi-
dent TO make swing through the
country. Senator Wheeler said,
adding:
81 wish he would get away
from the Lord HalifaNes, the
Felix Frankfurters. the Tom
Lannon'S.
81 wish the President would
20 West where reason and san
ity still prevail. 1 wish he
would get away from religious
and racial prejudices Of the At
lantIc seabOard. In the West
live men and women whose I'm
mediate ancestors have blazed
trails, and who understand fully
the philosophy of our govern
ment. There live men and
women who do not hear Stuks
bombers and see German sub
marines. There live men and
women who love and think of
America first.
BENEFIT OF TRIP
off he did, I know that he
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