Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-28
Roosevelt Takes
Nation 10 War,
. Senator Says
by GEO. ROCKWELL BROWN
special 10 THE DETROIT TIMES


CHICAGO, April 2s.-Over the
head of President Roosevelt. Sem
ator Burton X. Wheeler of Mon
tana. at a mass meeting of 10000
In the arena here Sunday after
noon, appealed to the Pope as the
head of the Catholic Church and
to the leadership of the Protestant
churches of the world. to initiate
an immediate movement to end
the war.
Deploring the fact that there Is
now no first class neutral nation
able to use its good offices to
bring about peace, the Democratic
leader of the observation-disclosures
of Congress made a direct re-
quest for spiritual leadership in
seeking to secure a cessation OF
hostilities.
Unless this is done, said Senator
Wheeler, as the huge gathering OF
men and women IN the ffag-deco-
rated hall rose TO applaud the idea
of seeking aid from religion to stop
the bloodshed in Europe, this
country would be drawn into the
conflict and the whole Of mankind
engulfed in heathendom.
PRESIDENT WARNED
President Roosevelt was warned
that the policy ne is pursuing has
impaired national unity in Amer
lea, and that if he persisted in
leading the country TO war he
would be confronted by "a reluc-
tant and divided nation
A resolution expressing this
ntiment was offered at the con-
fusion of Senator Wheelers
address by DR.. Charles Clayton
Morrison, editor of the Christian
Century. and was adopted amid
cheers and applause by a rising
vote. Photographed to President
Roosevelt in Washington, the reso-
luton read:
Ten thousand American citi-
zens assembled In Chicago look
with grave anxiety upon the
drift Of this country into war.
As free citizens we respectfully
express our condemnation OF
any further steps toward further
involvement In European wars.
We demand that the policy Of
aid to Britain shall now stop In
Its tracks.
we condemn conveys dis
guised as patrols. We condemn
any further promises OF aid to.
belligerents. This IL not Amer
ica's war and We declare that II
the exercise Of your great
powers az President leads the
country into IL we shall 90 as
reluctant and n divided nation.
Keep America out of this war.
MIR. President"
MENTIONS CHURCHILL TALK
Senator Wheeler. carrying his
crusade against American particl-
nation in the var 10 Chicago, in
behalf of Is non-politicaI OPP
ponents of the administrations
policies in Congress. and the
America First Committee. said he
had Just been informed of Prime
Minister Churchill's radio address,
broadcast in the United States.
"Mr. Churc l." he said.
"some time ago addressed the
American people and assured
them that all England needed to
win the war was the tools. Now
he says In effect that when he
eaid tools, he meant the delivery
II the tools as well. He praises
he President for the new sys-
tem.of patrols.
What Mr.. Churchill Is really
asking for Is the convoy OF war
materials, yet President RoOse-
Welt has said that conveys mean
shooting. and shooting means
war.
There IL no better American
living than Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh. yet when he tries to tell
the people the truth about the
war he Is bitterly attacked by
the Preside of the United
States. To smear Lindbergh as
Copperhead Is shocking 10
every right-thinking American"