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Show SAVE THE CHILDREN FROM WAR Two hundred thousand or more British mothers mo-thers have asked the women of the United States and Canada to take care of their children for them while their homes in Britain are endangered by air raids. Several million American families have offered to take care of the little ones from across the seas, if ways can be found to bring them over. What mother can resist such an appeal on behalf of the children? Several hundred children from Britain, France, and other war-torn nations of Europe have already arrived to safety in America. Our government has let down the immigration restrictions, re-strictions, requiring only that those who agree to take care of the children from abroad must show that they are able to provide for them. It is not a matter of adopting foreign children, but, merely of taking care of them until the danger is over and their families can either follow them here or take them back home. The chief obstacle to bringing over all the youngsters young-sters between five and sixteen whose parents want to send them, and for whom American homes are ready, is that there aren't ships enough. Under our neutrality law, no American ship may enter the ports of a belligerent nation. But there have been exceptions excep-tions made to that in the case of American vessels which lately brought home American citizens who had been stranded abroad. Their errand of mercy was respected by all the belligerents. Now a group of well known and influential women has been formed to appeal to Congress for an amendment to the neutrality law to permit "mercy ships" to go across the Atlantic to bring these children over. We have plenty of ships. It is hard to believe that any nation, however brutal; would hesitate to give ships bent on such an errand a clear passage, unmolested. The fear that sending such "mercy ships" would somehow involve the United States in war seems absurd. ab-surd. It should not stand in the way of the amendment amend-ment of the neutrality law so as to enable Americans to render humanitarian service to the children of a friendly nation. |