The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-31
HOMER CUMMINGS HARTFORD GUEST
Former Atty. Gen. Urges Support of Roosevelt at
 Polls Nov. 7

Hartford Oct 3i-Friends of in. ternAtional peace cannot appease iSolationlsts, but must support President Roosevelt this November, former attorney General Homer S, Cummings declared last night in An address ct Q rally at the Naylor school here, Former Mayor Thom. aS J. Speilacy presided and intro. duced Mir. Cummings.
 Speaking on What Should Amer. ica Do" MT. Cummings pointed out that victory for the Republican party on November [ would elevate to positions of power such well known iSolationiSts as Representa-. tive Hamilton Fish, Representative Joseph W. Martin, Senators Gerald P. Nye, and Hiram W. Johnson.
 T submit to the friends of in- teFnational peace that 1t Is not Q question merely of taking Q risk by giving power to these men and their like," MT. Cummings asserted, but lt iS 6 question of running head- long into known and unElistakable peril. You cannot appeaBe iSola- tioniBtB and you should not set the stage for Third World War, Mfr, Cummings warned that we cannot afford to risk Q change in the leadership Of this country at the present time through the Sub- Btitution of 70 man who, in oil charity 1t must be said, has had no experience whatever in internation- al affairs and who, during the pre- war period, showed no comprehen. sion whatever Of our national needs or danger
 During the two months following the election "crucial decisions in- Volving the conduct of the war, the safety Of our men and the progress of the peace," will have to Do made, Mir. Cummings said.
 MT. Cummings asked his listeners to suppose that Marshall stalin had been diSowned by his countrymen, Chian.aKi.Shek overthrown and Churchill dismissed aS prime minis. ter and then demanded: Would the news be welcomed here in Am- erica? Or, on the contrary, would we not be discouraged and dis mayed? Would we not feel concern where we now feel confidence and courage? Would not the friends of freedom everywhere mourn this heavy blow to the effort to win the war and assure the peace? To ask these questions is to answer them. NOl NOI America now, more than ever, must stand by the leadership that is winning the war and which, if permitted, will win the peace as well. We owe 1t to our allies who have fought with us at such heavy cost and who have based their hopes of the future upon our faith and fealty. But most of all, we owe 1t to ourselves
 MT. Cummings reviewed the years before the war when Mir. Roosevelt endeavored to warn the people of our country that we were threat ened by war, a warning which, earn for him the accusations of "war monger and an alarmist and the charge that he was seeking to establish a dictatorship.
 During all this time the Old Guard and the isolationists gave him no amount of rest, MT. Cum mings continued. Bitterly they impugned his motives and violently they resisted the measures of pre- paredness and defense he constant ly urged upon Congress.
 He reviewed MT. DeweyS actions and utterances during this period and added:
 Roosevelt was engaged in the mighty business of saving Amer ica and there was not one minute when he was not absolutely right. The great hour had struck but MT. Dewey heard not the bell.
 MH Cummings reviewed the his- tory of the League of Nations. pointing out that until President Wilson lost the by-election of 1918. ''there was no open opposition to the League of Nations.
 After that unfortunate event, the political storm broke loose" he said. Nevertheless. Senator Hard ing, who was the Republican call- didate in 1920, spoke in dulcet tones about an internatinal agreement to preserve peace. It was not long after his inauguration that Pres- ident Harding announced that the League of Nations was dead and buried.
 '"This Is an experience which we should never forget. It should DC burned into our minds and memor- les forever. if we are really nj fa- vor Of settled peace hy international