The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-22

membership from MiddletOwn to SaybrOek to Long Island sound, and then back again to SaybroOk, where dinner will be served at the Pease House. Musicians have been hired to entertain guests on the boat trip.
 The membership will meet in coast stands in no fear of a Japanese invasion. We ourselves have gone on record as glad to get out of the Philippines. The JapS have been anxious to main- tain the most cordial economic and diplomatic relations with America. Even our present Navy is complete protection against the armeed power of Japan at sea. What then is behind all the manufactured trouble with Ja- pan? The answer is simple and irrefutable. By unconstitution- ally pushing the western border of the United States out to Indo- China and Siam and the Malay Peninsula the war party in Wash ington hopes to provoke the Jap- anese into hostile acts or hos tile. words that may fan the emo- tions of American citizens, place them under an emotional anaes- thetic and render them unable to resist the process of forcing the Congress into declaration of war.
 The same unethical policy If provocation is behind every one of the other various steps taken by the national administration in its attempt to stampede us into war. The same unethical policy of provocation is behind the unconstitutional transfer of fifty gunboats to Great Britain by the President alone. The same un- ethical policy of provocation ;s behind the presence of Amer ican tropos, side by side with English troops, in Iceland today. The same unethical policy of provocation Is behind the dicta- toriaI and busybody criticism which our national administra- tion has heaped upon the French government of Marshal Petain. The same unethical policy of pro- vocation is behind the recent in- ternational meeting of President Roosevelt an Prime Minister Churchill at sea. By adopting such an unethical policy of provo cation our national administra- ton, with all its war representa- tiveS in the Senate and the House of Representatives and the Cab- met and the White House, has already broken faith with the American people which elected it for peace. If the national ad- ministration wishes a united na- tion, it will stop all provocative words and deeds and publicly accept the popular mandate of peace. If the country is disunit- ed, the fault lies not with the peaceful American people but with the warlike national admin istration in our midst. The Amer ican people will not be defeated in their desire for peace. They will resort, if need be, to im- peachment of high officials who oppose that peace.
 Jitterbug Policy
 Side by side with the unethical policy of provocation exists the national jitterbug policy of alarm. To alarm 8 nation has always been one of the favorite weap- ons of dictators throughout the world. To reduce a nation to state of fear is the surest way of imposing either a military or a civil dictatorship upon that na- ton. Let us consider the case of alarming aluminium. The alum mum makers of America have de- clared that there is no shortage of aluminium for defense. Alum mum has even been shipped so Communistic Russia. And yet housewives were recently drag ooned, through adroitly worded publicity, into giving up pots and pans and skewers and skillets for the eSake of defense in what was called a National Aluminium Collection Week. If there is no
 shortage of aluminium for de- fense, why were American homes beseiged for dnoationS of alum mum ware? If America has so much aluminium that it can ship the metal to Communistic Rus sia, the enemy of everything we hold dear as Americas, why the Walter Disney creation of a. Ma tional Aluminium Collection Week? There is only one answer to the question. The war party in Washington knows full well that there is no shortage of aluminium for purposes of de- fanse. But the war party in Washington also knows that by creating such an aluminium scare the element of fear, so import ant to a national dictatorship bent upon war, may be intro duced into every American house. hold.
 Shortage Denied
 The same Machiaevellian pol- icy of inoculating the American people with the bacteria of fear, as . means Of destroying their resistance to war, Is behind the puhlicized gas Tatiqning system which Secretary Ickes Is deter mined to impose upon American citizens after Labor Day. The oil companies of America have cats- ] gerlcally denied any shortage of