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have failed to state just who
pledged and committed the
United States to such program.
Under the Constitution of the
United States only the Congress
can make declaration Of wal
and the President has not asked
for such a declaration.
As the debate proceeded, the
press and both proponents and
of ponents Of the amendments
frankly stated that the President,
the country, and the Congress,
would accept any Neutrality Act
changes as approval Of past Pres
idential actions, and as Congress
sional authorization for the Pres
ident to proceed with his unde-
clared, war.
The Congress has acted. By
an extremely close vote IN both
the House and the stscnate the
President and his supporters have
been able to force through
amendments to the Neutrality
Act which in effect repeal the
measure. ! voted against the
amendment because believed
they make inevitable the final full
participation Of the United States
in the war now raging in Europe.
and make probable that we will
soon be in war in the Pacific.
] have kept my promise to the
| people Of my District to do every
thing within my power to keep
our country out Of war and at
honorable peace with all the
world. have lived up TO the plat
form made by my party in con
vention assembled. We are being
taken into an undeclarcd presi-
Dental war. The responsible,
rests upon the President, and
upon those Members of Congress
who have voted for the various
steps that are leading us into
war. The lives of approximately
one hundred fine young Ameri-
cans have already been sacrific-
ed. Many others seem doomed te
die as result Of Administration
policies and Presidential actions.
There is no question but that our
ships will be sent into the wa,
zones Hitler has stated that
every endeavor will be made te
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thar six months before, was to
last for two years and three
manths, seemingly had been FIR
got ten, The Lee sol Lend prog
had been started. There was mott
ING lett 70 10 but to appropriate
the funds requested.
Another and far more import
ant development was the secret
and historic meeting Of the Prcsl-
dent and the British Prime Min
ister at Il rendezvous III The Nosth
Atlantic. Neither the Congress
nor the people were taken into
| the Presidents confidence AZ to
his plans. Neither the CONGRESS-
nor the people have ever been in
formed as to just what went on
al this fateful Ocean meeting
/ True, an agreed program of oight
! points was announced; a proefam
that seemed to indicate that the
1 President had committed the
/ United States to many things,
some Of which have not yet been
made clear.
Within a week after the meet
ing the press and many states
men Of Great Britain began 10
speak openly Of full American
! participation in she war. Within
| the month the President address
/ cd the nation and issued his
"Shoot on sight order. Later it
developed that the famous order
| had been given the Navy some
weeks prior to the Presidents
address, without knowledge Of
the Congress or the people,
In the meantime other signifi-
cant events occurred. American
bases were established in British
controlled territory. Iceland was
occupied by our sailors and SOL
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sink them. Winston Churchill has
announced that the United States
Navy has already entered into
full collaboration with the Brit
ish Navy in waging war against
the Axis Powers
We are now being told that
this war, upon which We are be-
ing embarked, is to be limited
to naval warfare only, and thas
American expeditionary forces
will not be sent to fight and die
in foreign lands. pray that this
| may be true, but do not believe
| that it is true. I do not believe
you can limit war. Within my
| heart and soul [ am fearful tnat
| our country is soon to be taken
into an "all out and bloody war
| In which millions of American
youths will be called upon to par
! ticipateirito total war, the
cost Of which in blood and n.is-
cry. suffering and sacrifice, tears
and treasure, cannot be apprais-
| ed. | pray that our country may
not be forced to drink from su II
1 4 cup. But if war is tocome to
America, despite my warning
Ind my endeavors to prevent it,
then, like every other true Amer
So. sili give all that is within
me that victory may be ours. II
it is to be war, we MUST Wia.
We must win quickly, and with
as little cost in human life as
| possible. We must, as united
people, join hands and hearts,
and use every effort, every en-
| ergy, every resource, toward
that end. The youth Of America,
who will be called upon to Offer
their lives to their country, must
/ be given our loyal and unwaver-
! ing support. They must be fur
nisheG with every possible inn
! plement with which to protect
their lives. defeat the enemy, 81 !
bring victory to the American
cause. To this endeavor / pledge
my every effort.
But if America is to cntel
this war there are many, many
other things we must do to bring
triumph. Some of these things !
will discuss in this column next
week.
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F A ATU r ES
We Must Seek
Common Ground
(by Verlin d. Gordon) }

What is the Negro prob
lem if America but the Jew
ish problem of Europe, the
Indian problem Of Alaska,
or the Aborigine or Aus
tralia? These races are Us
ually engaged IL those oc-
cupations found at the low
est rung cf the economic
ladder. We hear of endlsess
promises and party plat
forms which pay noble lip
service To the ideals Of hui
man equality. however, leaN
ing untouched the problem
Of how To attain II
Thinkers the world over
have arrived AZ the truth
that the enlv way to remove
the canker Of racial prejn-
Continued Next Week.
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C. o M M E N T S


A number Of these ships, flying
the flag Of Panama, were sunk.
without loss OF American lies
An empty freighter, flying our
flag, was sunk in the far eastern
Atlantic Much talk developed as
to the freedom Of the seas. Sud
denly the news came that an
American destroyer-the Greer
had been fired upon by q Ger
man submarine without warning
while on a peaceful mission in
American waters. Later an Off
cial report from the Commanding
Admiral Of our Navy disclosed
that the Greer had hunted and
followed the submarine for al
most three and one-half hours,
signaling its position to British
planes and ships, before the tor
pedoes were fired by the under
sea craft.
Next came the tragedies Of the
destroyer Kearney, in which
eleven American lives were lost.
and Of the Reuben James, with a
death toll Of eighty American
youths. Official naval information
aiscloses that both the kearney
and the Reuben James Wele en-
gagged in conveying foreign mer-
chant vessels, in conjunction witt
foreign warships, when torpeodee
III October the President ask
! ed the Congress for an amend
nent To the Neutrality Act To
permit the arming ol American
merchant vessels, altho not a sin,
gle submarine was sunk py an
armed merchant vessel during
World War No. /, AMI we do no.
now have the needed gatns to
properly arm our merchant ma
rinc. However, the amendment to
arm merchant ships was adopted
by the House and sent To the
Senate, where Administration
leaders--as had been preileted
added an amendment - repeal
other sections Of tnn Nalt!raiity u
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United states TO ever enter the
conflict, thus asslFrit'9 aa faa
our county 10 the eonte
that repeated ship sinl<ings 80
resultant losses Of Lease II nj
goods would bring demanes foi
American conveys To assure safe
delivery, the President, without
cquivocation. states that conveys
would not be used. he told the
people. conveys mean shooting,
and shooting means war With
his consent, amendments were
written into the Lease-Iend Act
declaring against convoys and
against the sending of American
ships into the war zones.
The Lease Lend Bill became
law. Soon thereafter the Ifesi-
dent requested seven billion dol
| lars to carry out The purpose of
]! the law. This amount, the Presi-
cent and his leaders told the t'on-
/ sfess, would tinafee the -aase-
Lend program for twenty seven
| months, would assure the dofeat
Of Hitler and sis lor'les. ard
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Our country Is standing on the
very brink Of wal just how soai
the finai plunge into the full fuia
o4 combat wiil be tlken, only tlie
future can tell, bal the time does
not appear to be FAR distant
During 1893, long before tho
holocaust broke out, | told the
people Of my Dlstiict that be-
iieyed another great war was de-
velopine and predicted The great
est task awaiting the 10th Cor
gress would Re to keep America
cut Of the titanic struggle that
was 10 come. gave solemn
pledge and promise TO do all |
could to keep our country at hon
prable peace with all the world
Despite the betrayal of Gee
hoslovakia despite Munich war
came ~ Europe ~ September
1889. Soon thereafter the Presi-
dent Of the United states asked
for far-reaehing changes ii I'M
portant laws affecting our for
elen policy, telling the Congress
and the people that the change.
he requested We're for the pur
pose Of peace, TO me they were
steps toward war. warnet
against them and insisted theil
adoption would start our beloved
country down the road to war
Many of my colleagues agreed
with me, bat through one mean
OF another, sufficient votes Wer
found to write into the law th
changes requested by tho Pres
dent. SO the Neutrality Act
which had been passed by th
COMPRESS during the peaceful
days Of 1885 at the insistence &
President Roosevelt and Seere
tary Of state Hull as the creates
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TO permit certain belligerents
Great Britain and France-to
purchase military supplies from
us for cash on the barrelhead, :
with delivery at our ports for
transportation across the seas in
their own ships. Many Of us
pointed out that when the cash
began to run low, the demand
would then come for military
supplies on credit. Also that
when British ship losses became
high, the demand would come
that we furnish ships to deliver
the goods We were selling The
President and his advisors scof-
fed at our warnings and our pre-
dictions We were told tat the
Neutrality Act would lot permit
either contingency TO arise: that
the Act was our safeguard and
our protection: and that il would
not be further amended or
changed.
Remembering our lesson from
World War No. I, and seeing
danger ahmd, many Of US began
to call for the building Of a
strong national defense for the
United States. In many speeches,
/ called attention to our unpre-
paredness and to the lack OF mod
ern and mechanical equipment
for use Of our armed forces. The
I,owland Countries were invaded
and conquered and still the Roose
Welt Administration marked time.
AS late as June Of 1910, the
President, in endeavoring to get
the Congress to adjourn and 60
home, made sarea tie remarks tn
the effect that thnra was nothing
for Congress to do except make
4 lot Of silly speeches join
ed in helping to defeat the adj
oarnment resolution. IT was af-
forwards that the entire national
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legislative con
tribution ever
made to world
peace and for
the safety 0 f
the z nit & d
States, " d Il
amended. 1t was
49,, ,au,lad So as
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Vilhy Threatens
To Fight j. 5.
Dakar S eizure M g ans
War, De Brinon Says
International New. service Cable


PARIS via Berlin. May 10
Declaration that France will fight
the United States if any American
attempt is made to seize the
French West African port of Da-
kar. or any other French posses
sion. was made in Paris tonight
by Fernand de Brinon, Vichy dele
gate to the German authorities in
Paris.
Not only Will the French navy
protect territorial integrity, but it
Is prepared as we'll TO convoy
French merchant ships laden with
Sorely-needed foodStuffS through
the unrestricted British blockade,
he declared. This blockade is in
tolerable to France, De Brinon
added.
In explaining the part the
French fleet would play, De Brinon
pointed out that France is charged
under the terms of the ar1mistice
with Germany and Italy with de-
Tending the French empire against
attack
Already. the feet has Sue
cessfulIy defended Dakar against
an attack by De Gaullist Gree
French) forces" De Brinon said,
land IL the Americans commit
the same folly we will resist
them, too"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11

SHANGHAI. May 10.-Whisper-
ing galleries of Asia and the Far
East are echoing mySteriously
rumors and talk that the self-ele-
walton of Josef Stain to president
premier of the United Socialist
Soviet Republics of 10000, 900
people is the forerunner of start
ling developments in Asia and
Europe in the near future.
Among these reports IS that the
expected American plunge into the
European war Is certain TO be FOL
lowed by war in the Pacific, and
will give the necessary impulse TO
formation of a German-RuSSian-
Japanese-ltalian military alliance
against the western "capitalistic
plutocratic front
II is being recalled that Stain.
the proud Asiatic son OF a peasant
shoemaker of Didi-Lono. Georgia.
whose path of will TO power" has
led over thousands of corpses, took
the initiative to the pact with Hit
Ter. which made the NaZi blitZ-
krieg victories possible, and also
that on his initiative the Soviet
Russian-Japanese neutrality pact
materialized in 10 minutes as
Matsuoka reported!
II is not necessary to take too
seriously the uncheckable reports
of Observation-Disclosures
Italian military coalition, but
ASia's whispering galleries often
have had what seemed occult
that something Is go
ing on behind the scenes in Mos
COW, Berlin. Rome and Toxic.
Relations between Berlin and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Maxi Bon1bers Pounding
London in Terror Raid;
British Batter Bengazi
Midnight A ASA ult
Retaliates for
Rhine Raid
BY GEORGE LAIT
1T News Service star Correspondents

Init News Service stan Correspondents
LONDON, May 11.--fSunday)
= Hundreds of German raiders
loosed huge cargoes of explosive
and fire bombs on London last
night and early today in an assault
that appeared to equal the heav-
lest previous blitzraids the capital
has suffered.
The city's first large-scale bonn
bardment in weeks came in evil
dent reprisal for Friday nights
Royal Air Force blows that left
heaps of flaming ruins at the
Rhineland twin cities of Mann
helm and Ludwigshafen and struck
at the heart of Berlin, as well as
dozens of other Reich targets.
An estimated 200 to 800 bomb.
ers were raiding London.
BY 2:30 O'Clock this morning.
when the raid was three hours old
and four Nazi bombers already
destroyed. every section of the
worlds largest city had been hit.
with damage and casualties stead
ily mounting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Found in Ashes

To get 10 the spot where the
-eharred body was found in the
ashes of a bonfire two miles from
the Briggs farm, she would have
had TO walk along three roads,
unless she inexplicably followed a
railroad track.
There were no indications OF
smuggling or beating found on the
body except for one mark at the
side of the head. on which patholo-
glSiS were uncertain.
Two sons Of Raymond F. Troll.
discovered the charred remains of
the Detroit woman on the Troiz
farm. - miles southeast of Ann
Arbor Friday.
Most important clue so far,
Sheriff John Osborn said. is
report of another Manchester
farmer. BENJAMIN Ehilsizer. who
said ne saw two men and q boy
around bonfire. probably April
10 on the spot where the body
was found.
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j 5 Bans 7 Italian
Groups Asking Cash

WASHINGTON. May 10. =
ms Tho state department to-
day prohibited two relief organi-
zations from soliciting funds in
the United States for use in Italy
on the grounds that these funds
were being diverted TO the Italian
government.
The organizations named by
The department are the Federation
Of Italian War Veterans in the
L. S. A Inc. 626 Fifth avenue.
New York City. and the Ladies
Auxiliary Of the Providence
Branch OF the Federation of the
Italian World War Veterans in the
United States. 296 Atwells avenue,
Providence. r. /.
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Ndzis Reported
Invading Irdq
Ankara r a do Asserts
Large Army Moving
International New. Ssr,ic, Wire

NEW YORK, May 10 - The
Budapest radio was heard by Ma
tional Broadcasting Company to-
night hroadcasting a report from
Ankara. Turkey, that large num-
bers- of German troops are arriy-
ing in Iraq"
No further details were given.
Earlier the Berlin radio. accord
inc 10 MICS Short-wave listening
post. quoted dispatches from Bag
dad as saying lraqi troops Friday
carried out a highly successful
surprise counter-attack on the
British air base at IIabbaniya,
penetrating defenses. occupying
the airdrome and part of the
British army cantonment.
The British position at Hah-
haniya. where an lraqi siege had
been broken last Tuesday, WAS
described in the Berlin broadcast
as strongly menace with
fierce fighting still reported.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Smith Thanks Hepburn
For Life-SaUing Msulin

Detron's acting mayor. John
". Smith. thanks Ontario'S prime
minister. the Hon Mitchell +.
Hepburn. for saving his life. it was
disclosed Saturday following a
meeting of the pair here before
tho boxing benefit for the British
War Relief Fund.
Smith. long a sufferer from dia-
beteS. and Hepburn have been
good friends for several years, oc-
casionally fishing Ontario streams
together.
Recently Smith called upon
Hepburn 10 slash through On
tario'S wartime red tape 80 the
Detroit councilman might get a
Canadian-manufactured inSulin for
treatment Of his diabetes. Smith
had found the Canadian product
most effective IN his particular
case.
Hepburn issued orders 10 his
health department 10 expedite The
shipment of the insulin and Smith
received IT within A few days.
Thank YOU, Mitch, for saving
my life," Smith said when he
greeted Hepburn on the Detroit
side Of the Ambassador Bridge
Think nothing of II, Johnny"
iepourn replied.
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May Startle World

The man whom lis most faWn-
ing followers extfaFagahtlp- call
the greatest brain on this planet
may indeed wish TO staTtle Russia
and the world by some sensational
coup after his ascension to the
Bolshevik throne within the
kremlin walls that will make him
look more a Napoleon of political
strategy.
Americas plunge into a two
front war in the East and West
may present him with that chance.
StimSon' hints at a British
American military strategy of at
tribution and exhaustion imply
that military defeat for Hitler
may not be possible or practicable.
Churchill's bulldoggy speec h
with all its indomitable determin-
alton gives a gloomy picture of
Britain's plight and holds out no
roseate prospect of betterment in
the near future and seems to re-
veal that England is closer to pros
tration at present than is Ger
many.
The only great power not in the
war after Americas involvement,
it might give Soviet Russia an OPP
portunity to throw its weight into
the balance that would decide the
issue at the point of exhaustion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
BODY
Found; Hunt
Torch Killer

After days investigation,
Washtenaw County authorities
Saturday night appeared without
a clue, a suspect or motive in
the torch murder of 2S-year-old
Hazel Briggs of Detroit, whose
body was hacked and burned on
a rubbish heap near Manchester,
Mich.
Relatives of the dead woman
and close friend with whom she
lived here, Miss Beatrice Buresh.
a., were unable TO cast any light
on the mysterious murder in
statements 10 deputies.
Pulling vas the fact that no
one could be found who had seen
Miss Briggs after she left her
family's farm house near Man
chester on April 10.
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You know Id do the same
for volt" Smith said.
Il know YOU would" was
Hephurn'S answer.
We'll, I hope to see Won on
our side on July at the Ameri-
can Invasion of Toronto. I I'M
derstood there is quite n number
Of Detroiters coming up for it,"
Hepburn said as they parted.
American Legion posts from
Michigan are invading" Toronto
for three days beginning the
Fourth.
You bet IL he there II / pos
sibly can" Smith replied.
"Mell. Ill be seeing You- at
Toronto on the Forth then"
was HephurnS farewell
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Moscow seem not to have been
very warm since the Balkans
definitely have come into Ger
many; orbit and economic sphere.
1t is unsafe. however, TO bank too
heavily on surface appearances in
the plays of such political and
diplomatic tacticians and strate-
gists as Stain and Hitler. in whose
policies momentary expediency is
the major and decisive factor.
Berlin. I am informed has been
endeavoring to mollify Moscow for
the loss of the Balkans, and is
suggesting compensation else
where.
Hitler claims for himself mas
terry of the European continent as
an economic bloc. 1t is alleged,
but cannot of course be confirmed,
that conversations have been GO
ing on to the end that Stain
could make himself lord of Asia
with Japan as the paramount
power in northern China and
southeastern Asia.
How much fancy. or how little
fiction. there may be in. these
whiSperings the next few weeks
and months will reveal.
Stain is the greatest territorial
profiteer of this war. These cost
less gains have raised the prestige
of the man of steel as he likes
to be known, enormously in Soviet
Prussia
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Shelter Destroyed

One giant bomb crashed into
an air raid and fire wardens' post,
instantly killing all the occupants.
Two ospitals were severely
damaged and many of their
patients and medical personnel
believed killed or wounded. In
the outskirs, big bombs demolished
working class homes and business
shops.
Screaming and whistling terror"
bombs. as well as the conventional
types of high explosive and in
cendiary missiles. came raining
down on the moonlit metropolis,
which reverberated to explosions
and the roar of ground guns, in,
terspersed by the chatter of the
machine-guns overhead.
Germany's revenge raiders
power-dived low over the fire.
quently-battered British capital,
bombing in apparent indiscrimi-
nate fashion -----
Successive relays of luftwaffe
bombers, flying low under the brill
liant light of a full moon, con.
verged on London from several die
rections, beginning shortly after
11:30 p. m. t4:30 p. m. Detroit
time Saturday, and Immediately
started to release tons of high
power demolition bombs followed
BY flares and fire missiles.
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Two Supply Ships
Also Intercepted
in Naval Action
By THOMAS c. WATSON
staff Correspondent

Init News Service staff Correspondent
LONDON, May 10.-Britain to-
night announced a smashing naval
bor1bardment of the Libyan port
of Bengazi during which two mu-
nitions-laden Axis supply ships
were blown TO bits and harbor
facilities severely crippled.
This was the second British VIC
tory in the battle of the Mediter-
ranean claimed in London. Earlier
today the. admiralty announced
that powerful British naval forces
in the western Mediterranean beat
back a series of German-Italian
air attacks on convoy.
All the British ships emerged
unframed from the spectacular
engagement. While seven Axis
bombers were shot down and
others damaged as against loss of
only two British naval fighting
planes, the admiralty said.