The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

l paign ot propaganda in history.
 Militant and united they stand,
 eighty per cent of our American
 people, opposed to the war and to
 the war-lusting. minority, who have
 tried by means both fair and foul.
 to sell their war to the people of
 our country.
 SHORT OF WAR"
 Foul means? Well if the defend
 CTS of an alliance with Britain. eith-
 CT offensive or defensive have not
 actually lied to us, they certainly
 have been miserly with the truth.
 Remember their phrase "short of war; We don't hear it any long
 CT, but we do remember 1t. Yes.
 they have dropped that short of
 war phrase now. Some of them
 were not sincere in it from the be-
 ginning. For some there is no doubt
 that 1t read short of truth" Wasn't
 that why William Allen White re-
 signed from the most vociferous Of the committees to get us into the war? No, it wasn't a very pa-
 triotic trick, but it worked. They
 used it while they hoped 1t would bring the American people down the bloody roadway, then they threw away the mask.
 AGAIN AND AGAIN
 AND AGAIN"
 While I am talking to you moth- CTS and fathers. I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but shall say it again and again and again. Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that by it's very existence it will keep the threat of war from our shores. The pur- pose of our defense is defense"
 The words of course are those that carried the solemn promise made on October 30, 194O, to the American people by the President Of the United States, who was then a candidate for 8 third term. The people accepted the promise of their President and largely on the strength of that promise, they elected him g. few days later the first third-term President in Amer ican history.
 Today it is quite apparent that | the President is resigned to war. A week ago we were told that we should wake up to the fact that we have a war to win. Now we are told that the time has come to use naked force." Repeatedly in | the past those close to the Presi- dent have made even more belli- | coSe statements without official re- l buke. And all of this in spite of | the statement that i've are no nearer to war;" and in spite of the fact that the danger to our country is admittedly less than when the promise was made.
 Again and again and again!" It seems that now if ever the time has come for the use of one of those "agains." A repetition of the prom 1se that, Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars" would give our American mothers and fathers comfort and assurance and destroy the very real grounds for their worry and uncertainty. IN THE CAMPS
 Despite the radio and newspaper propaganda to the contrary, there come persistent and bitter reports of the opposition of our soldier youth in camp toward the exten- sion of their year of service. The Brooklyn Tablet carried the fol- lowing letter from a soldier at Fort Benning:
 Dear Sir: We fellows in she army cannot directly influence leg lslation which affects our destiny as American citizens. The right of petition is denied us. We are not nevertheless prohibited from writ 1 ing a letter to your substantial, pro- American and Christian paper. You have the affectionate regard or all of us-good and true Amer icanS-for your endeavors to keep | us out of war. General Marshall in | his testimony last week asserted | that protests against keeping us in | camp more than the year, stipu- | lated in the governments agree | ment came largely from bunds- | men. The general is incorrect. If | he will go to this or any other camp, he will find that over go | per cent of the boys want to get | out at the end of the year. If we are bundSmen then we all should | De. sent home as bad Americans. But we are not bundsmen. We are Christian Americans who feel that we are being victimized The emer- gency to keep us is in Washing ton, not in Asia, Europe or else- where. We ask relatives and friends Americans alto write to their senators and representatives, to their papers and political leaders, 10 defeat this new legislation to Keep Us here until the war can be forced down the peoples throats and then to have us thrown into the cauldron. It is none of our business"
 ITO DO YOUR DUTY"
 Archbishop Beckman of Dubuuue. | in his nationwide plea for peace, concluded in these eloquent words: | Now l charge you, Catholic and christian citizens, to do your duty. charge you this very hour to sit | down, mothers and fathers = VOL who have most to lose and most to gain-make yourselves vocal to the Congress. Get out the letters and the postcards, and write! Write! Write! WriteI Let your senators and your congressman know where you stand in this matter. NOW.
 Your right of petition implies also a solemn and 8 sacred obligation. It | is your duty to use it freely, fear lessly, necessarily. In the very i teeth of the slurs that have been cast upon that right charge you to preserve. In the corridors of Con- gresS make the welkin of petition ring today, tomorrow and through out all the years; for 1t is e sweet hail ~ lihns.k.r nam ann.. ......aa z.