Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-07 | Page 2 | War Vote Plan Called Menace

WAR VOTE PLAN CALLED MENACE KANSAS CITY Jan 7 W Sec R-Sec- Sec Secretary of ot War Woodring assailed the Ludlow war referendum proposal pro pro- pro pro-I today as likely if passed to expose the United States to at at- tack The proposal is due for debate inthe inthe in inthe the house Monday Addressing the chamber of commerce commerce commerce com com- merce Woodring said Suppose a dictatorship engaged in a dispute with the United States should suddenly decide to cut off essential supplies by a blockade U Under der the proposed amendment congress would have to debate and consider even submitting the proposition proposition proposition declaration of war to a vote of ot the people then the nation must be transformed into a huge debating debating debat ing society and a ballot taken before before before be be- fore the country could undertake to defend itself What happen in the meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time Woodring declared passage would be equivalent valent to notifying the world had intention intention The United States no tion ion of maintaining its position in inae inthe inthe the ae world It would be notice that the general genral gen gen- eral ral peace front had been weakened weakened weak- weak ened ned by the withdrawal of its most powerful member Japans Japan's unchallenged Invasion of Manchuria in 1931 encouraged Italy to o invade Ethiopia Germany to occupy occupy oc- oc cupy the Rhineland and both to Intervene intervene In- In ervene in the Spanish civil war Woodring declared