Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-13
We Can Still Stay Out


PPRovAL by Congress of the lend-lease bill has the
"A effect of embarkng the United States fatefu
course-very possibly the road to
The United States is no longer neutral nation.
1t is -bellgerent state and actual bellgerency
Is separated from this fact by very thin line
AS all must realize, position is most
precarious, awaiting only the commission of beigerent
acts against us by us break down the last thin
barrier behind which present peace endures.
- It is still remotely possible, however, to keep the
United States out of war;
If the American people do not want war they are
still free to say and still free to explore the last
possibilities of remaining at peace
For this reason there high for the repre-
sentaves of the people who unsuccessfy opposed the
endlease bill to go before the people now Senator
Burton X Wheeler of Montana has courageously said
at least will do
CPEAKING for those of his colleagues who believe as
- he does, that the most fororn of hopes for
peace must be abandoned Wheeler declares
I'VE are going to carry a crusade from end
of this country to the other to the
that going be uhoosed right away about aid to
Britain that would take into the war"
This endeavor is not hostile to the avowed purposes
Of the end-ease BILL which assertedy only contemplated
giving aid Britain without involving the United States
in
President Roosevelt has always professed determine
ton to keep the United States out of war and has
peatedy assured the country that the power he sought
and got under the endlease bill would preserve rather
than menace the peace of America
A ND Gen. Robert E. Wood acting chairman of the
"A America First Committee, an organization devoted
to keeping the United States out of war, says:
"The President has all the power to aid Britain
he could possibly want.
cit is up to him keep his pledge that such aid shall
be short of war.
ct is up to the people to see that the pledge is
kept. -.
I'VE propose to remind the President continually of
his repeated pledge to keep country at and to
keep our boys from foreign battlefeds."
reminded of his pledges Even his most jealous sup
poers the Senate accepted them being sincere and
surely expect him to keep them.
Did not Senator Walter F. George chairman of the
Senate foreign relations committee which successfully
sponsored the lend-ease bill, say:
81 morally satisfied that the bill i. . may be adj
mnisered by the President of the United States in such
manner to make the peace of the United States
and to keep away from Shores and avoid the
necessity of our soldiers participating in war"
DRES1DENT ROOSEVELT has assumed an admittedly
i grave and difficult task and responsibility
1t is beside the point now, since irrevocable deci
sion has been made, that many of his countrymen and
perhaps majority of them thought it unwise to
burden him with that task and responsibility.
He sought the burden and it was put upon him.
Now let him prove that his way was best, and that
the trust thus placed in him is misplaced and that
the power reposed in him will be the fearful instru
ment of his establishment and his countrys involve
ment in destructive war.
But let not the whole responsibility be placed upon
President Roosevelt Lest hope for peace be entirely
gone let those who still peace both think speak
vigorously and vgilanty for the preservation of
peaceful way of life
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