The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-10-30

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Hazel Brannon
Hazel Brannon

There is only n way, in our op-
inion, to interpret President Roose-
velt's Navy Day speech.
"The shooting has started, Amer
lea has been attacked and we Amer
Jeans have cleared our decks and
taken our battle stations" he said.
How else can that be taken except
that he intends for our country to
participate in a shooting war?
The Senate Foreign Relations COM
mittee has recommended that ham
~stringing provisions Of the Neutra-
lily Act be repealed. MI. Roosevelt's
comments were that the elimination
of those provisions was the course
Of honesty and of realism"
The President then mentioned that
he had in his possession two secret
documents showing a plan for Hitler
to divide South America into five
vassal states and the other document
called for abolishing all existing re
ligion.
Last January the President made
a scare" speech in which
he envisioned the bombing Of all
American cities from South Ameri-
al bases. This speech resulted in
the enactment Of Lend Lease. II is
a pity and a tragic blot on the Am
erican record that from that day we
have never dealt honestly or realis-
ticly with the problems of n in
Movement in the European war. Ev-
cry step we have taken has been,
according to the President at the
time, a step to keep the nation out Of
war. As a matter of fact, they
have been steps of the most be-
lligerent nature intended to involve
this country in the European con-
flict.
Our foreign policy has been nei-
Their honest nor realistic at any time
since war actually started in En-
rope more especially since the
enactment Of Lend-Lease.
We are wondering how long it
will be before the story Of the par
tition of South America into vas
sal states and a%bolishing all existing
religion will sound as fantastic and
ridiculous as the story Of bombing
American cities now sounds?
Those stories don't sound like the
honest and realistic approach to our
problems.
The coddlink Of labor has boom
eranged on the administration ~ no
other thing in its history, except
perhaps Nh. Ickes.
John L. Lewis has set himself up
as the dictator of a nation and the
president has, in effect, gone to hin.
on his knees asking him to contri-
butte to a program which, according
10 the President, is for the preser-
walton of our American way Of
life
There are a lot of people who
feel that if the american way of
life in the future il to include such
relationships as that of Mr.. Lewis
we are ready now for some
radical alteration in that respect
The American people have had
too much of John l.. Lewis but the
President has yet to do anything to
cross him. This can't last much
longer.
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Mary Cain quotes West Points
Edgar Harris and comments thusly:
Edgar Harris says he's depending
on the President to keep the promise
he made on October 80, 1910, when
he told parents of the nation: 81
give you one more assurance. ! have
said this before but l shall say it
again and again, your boys are not
going to be sent into any foreign
wars"
Brother Harris, that's a mighty
poor prop you're leaning on /.
Hadn't you heard? It's OUR war,
now. We probably started the thing !!
Well, Mary, we expect the Eng
fish to say we started the wal be-
fore it is over, if ever. Regardless of
who started it we know that AM
erica and Americans are going to
pay for It with a lowered standard
of living and inevitably a changed
economy and form of government F.
even if we should avoid another
AEF.
But America is guilty of pro-
longing the war. 1t would perhaps
have already been over had we not
interfered with our promises of aid
which to date haven't mater
iahzed anything like what we led the
British to believe.