The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-07-03
United States Reossumes
Stotus As Colony

Exactly 165 years ago in 1776 We de-
clared our independence of Great Britain.
BY our congressional action in passing
house resolution 1776 we came back into the
fold as colony of England. Today we stlii
retain that status.
We say today the United States is
colony of England because she is exploiting
this country just as much as II we belonged
to her. We are giving her much more aid
than any colony she possesses in her 1ar-
flung empire.
How did we reassume GU r colonial sta
tus? When congress passed H. K. l776 II
did so because the President of the Y. s.
asked Congress to pass the bill NOBODY
knows yet who wrote it. But our congress
passed the bill because it was presented 10
them by the head of our nation as measure
that would keep war away from our shores,
which will prevent us from going to war"
Congress passed that bill because it knew
the first concern of the American people was
staying out of the war in Europe and any
where else away from our shores.
The succeeding months have proved be-
yond the shadow of doubt that the Pre-
sident either didn't know what ne was talk
ing about when he made that statement OF
worse still, he deliberately misrepresented
the BILL
Be that as it may Congress passed the
bill and since then we have loaned or leased
to Great Britain billions Of dollars OF war
materials war materials that Will De
paid for by the American taxpayers, who in
this respect are British subjects of the high
est order. The lease-lend bill was hardly
passed before Britain started talking about
ships to send supplies in Then the ques-
ton of conveying the ships came up. WITH
Presidential approval the U S. Navy today
Is guarding conveys to North Africa. All
this goes on while our congressman discuss
whether we should convoy or not.
In our Presidents own words; Convoy
ing means shooting and shooting means
war" Thus we find ourselves on the very
brink of war which the American people
still do not want in spite of all the "emer-
gencies' which the President has proclaimed.
Our security is threatened, not because
we are about to be attacked, but because we
are being drawn into war because OF the
course we have been pursuing. We have not
waited to be attacked anywhere in this hem
isphere which we justly want to defend. We
have gone to North Africa to invite attack
:. an attack from which we are not pre-
pared to defend ourselves and will not be
for many months.
Our President saw fit six months ago
to forget our independence as a nation, to
subscribe to the defeatist notion that we can
not arm to defend ourselves in time to ward
off German invasion, to subscribe to the
theory that England is our first line of de-
Tense.
So today we are not free and independ-
ent Americans. If we were we would not
be on the brink of an unwanted war and
that is where we stand. We would be arm
ing for our own defense with the idea not OF
inviting war but rather to make ourselves
so secure that no nation or combine of ma
tons would dare attack us.
So all we can do is maintain our colonial
status by giving England everything she asks
for without question and pray that it is en-
ough F. we have committed our fate or our
President has committed us, and we can do
nothing about it. We will sink or swim as
England does.
AS England goes so do her colonies.
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