The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-23

boys in the army, They tell them
Administration has sold out h e
flower of our womanhood ="
In Chicago, the Citizens K p
America Out OF War Committee
which under William J. Grace had
sponsored Lindbergh, shortened its
name to Citizens Committee and
continued its routine of agitation
against the war effort.
l went to see Horace Haase and
found him busily at work on the
next issue of his organ Americans
Tor Peace. With his New York
unit already functioning, Haase
was contracting former America
Flrst-ers in cities throughout the
country for the formation of secret
cells. and had sent two urgent let
tiers to Lindbersh who on Deem
Der 10 had already addressed a
gathering of former America First
Committee officials at the sWank
New York home of Edwin S. Web
ster.
I'VE can't win this war; Haase
kept telling me over and over.
What is the use of trying? Japan
could capture Hawaii if She want
&c to. l hope none of our boys
get killed, but at the same time
hope we lose every ship in the
Pacific.''
Haase set me to work filing
name cards of those to whom he
had already written. I filed about
hundred and was not surprised
to see a large listing of America
f'irst-ers, including the name of
the notorious Boris Brasol. Haase
told me he had visited Joseph P.
Kamp.
Haase asked me for the present
whereabouts of Cathrne Curtis and
l told him all I knew about her,
recounting my experience in Wash
ington.
Shortly after my visit Haase ap-
parently obtained enough funds to
print, instead of mimeograph large
quantities of Americans for Peace
and sent out bundles of it to cell
leaders in key cities. While not
yet a dangerous organizer of ap-
peasement and defeatisrn, Haase
worried me greatly. I looked upon
him as a symbol of a resurgent
and even more sinister nationalist
fascist movement than any we had
had so far. Such a disruptive and
revolutionary force hacking away
at the heart of a nation at war
could conceivbly shatter our mo-
rale and help Hitler win his most
decisive victory
And in Congress, the obstruc-
tlonists whom we dignity by mere
lv calling t h m 'isolationists,
jumped back to their old dissen-
sionist tricks.
perhaps nothing but march
Oh Washington will ever restore
this government to the people,"
said Clare E. Hoffman.
Representative William P. Lam
bertson gave an American voice
to Nazi lies broadcast nj tly
from Berlin: I voted for the dec
laration of war. Nobody would
have told me that I would on the
sixth Of December. We were ma
neuvered into it."
Let us save America for Amer
icans.'' Thus, on February % John
Z. Rankin ended his speech with
Stahrenberg's fascist slogan.
Discord, dissension and defeat
ism had not died down. My find
;ngs showed that unity on the psy-
Geological front was still myth.
Those who had been its vehicles
prior to Pearl Harbor were still
At it, prompting the venerable SEN
ator George Norris to declare in
the Senate:
Little things. little by little, ev-
ely day and every hour. coming
from somewhere, the finding Of
fault with something that is inn
material and which does not
amount to anything, 20 matter
which way it is done, are hurting
US, are injuring our cause, and
making it more difficult for our
brave men to achieve on the bat
tlefield the victory which we ex-
pect eventually
Copyright 1913 by E. P. Button
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