Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-26
Wheeler Blasts
Hull ,KnoxCIaim
lis Our Fight
BY GEO. ROTHWELL BROWN
Special % IHE nEIROIT IIMES


special 70 rHE DETROIT inns
SIOUX FALLS. s. u. April rs
Senator Burton X. Wheeler "a
spokesman for the IS non-inter'
ventioniStS Of the Senate an
House Of Representatives struck
hack vigorously at a mass meeting
here last night, al the increasingly
warl.Se utteranceS Of two mem
Der Of President Roosevelt,
Cabinet.
Senator Wheeler enied the
ratercrt Of Secretary of the Navy
Knox that The war in Europe /,
Americas fight, and challenged
what he declared 70 be Secretary
Of State HullS demand that tht
United States so 10 war.
Senator Wheeler, addressing ar
audience Of $500 IN The coliseum
cauStically criticized President
Roosevelt press conference attack
or Col. Charles A.. Lindbergh. A
demonstration for the transat-
lsntic nier greeted mention of his
name. Senator Wheeler said;
ITO call Colonel Lindbergh a
Copperhead and TO compare him
60 Clement l.. Nailandigham
lowers the dignity of the office
of Preside of the United
States.
SWEARING is NEW
"Our Presidents heretofore
have not led the pack to intimi-
date and smear those who have
disagreed with them on funda-
mental ISSUES of government.
aRooseyelt's bitter statement
about the boy who flew the At
lantic alone with indomitable
courage will be sent Il by
right-minded citizens every
where.
THE President is receiving
very poor information II he
thinks for one moment the
American people are going to
follow his cabinet and his close
advisors into war.
"The Presidents disclosure
that American patrol vessels Will
operate far into the waters of
the seven seas" Is a trial balloon.
"The President is trying to
ascertain how far the people are
willing to GO. The patrol Is the
first step to the convoy. Their
object Is the same
AMERICANS CALLED DUMB
at have been shown dispatch
from Washington" said Senator
Wheeler, "stating that President
Roosevelt had told reporters that
Americans who have taken the
attitude that the relationships
will win the war had adopted
a dumb attitude which was not
good Americanism.
"In other words, II American
citizens. reading the news from
the battlefront, form opinions
of their own as to the outcome
of the war. and those opinions
do not agree with the opinion of
official Washington, they are
not good Americans.
THAT sort of statement Is de-
liberateiy designed to influence
and intimidate American public
opinion.
"Mr. Roosevelt says he Is
against relationships, but In this
sort of attempt to prevent the
people from thinking for them
selves he employs the very
methods of dictatorship.
DEFENSE. BUT FOR BRITAIN
"Only Thursday night Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull and
Colonel Knox demanded, In ef-
feet, that United States go to
war. The secretary of state
warned the American people
that our safety was endangered.
But he did not suggest that we
build our own defenses. The
secretary urged that we give
maximum aid to a foreign power.
AZ call upon the American
people, as Secretary Hull did, to
equip this nation to the fullest
for its self defense, but I mean
for the defense Of the United
States, and not for an offense In
Africa, Asia or Europe.
erica must arm for
America"
Mrs. Wheeler, who is accom-.
panying the senator. spoke at
luncheon rendered by group OF
women. at which she said:
"Women throughout the land
are working at top speed to
stop our entrance into this war.
The fate of this country il in the
hands Of the women. They can
keep II out of war II they
want to-"
s NETWORKS FOR WHEELER
CHICAGO. April 26 ms
Senator Burton K Wheeler ID
OF Montana VIII speak for a hal
hour over all three Of the majo
broadcasting systems beginning a
1870 2. n. EST from Boston oil
April 80. the America First Com
nittee announced today TIT
committee said that only twic'
before in history has this favored
time been granted a speaker
other than the President, by al
three ratuprlc