Show F GENERAL HUGH S s. s JO JOHNSON H N SON J 4 I 0 U F N NU NUb b bWashington Washington D. D C C. C PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S POWER the blank check lease lend lease end ji 1 has been rushed bums-rushed through congress the United States may not be at war war but but the President will be He has announced his peace terms freedom of speech and of worship social security and the end of wars war through disarmament not disarmament not merely in in Europe but everywhere in the world including Deluding of course Rus Rus- sia This is the new world wide world wide New Deal with our taxpayers and workers workers workers work work- ers as they did for the American New Deal paying as much of the whole bill as the President shall de de- de- de termine Mr Roosevelt has also announced announced announced an an- the kind of peace in which he will not acquiesce People who are not at war dont don't prescribe either the kind of peace that will be accepted accept accept- ed or the kind that wont won't The President also asks for ultimate ultimate ultimate ulti ulti- mate power to dispose all the war strength in America except manpower manpower manpower man man- power maybe to fight for whom and at any place he decides decides all all allour our guns ships planes shells rifles all our materials and facilities for production and by the same token if not all our wealth then at least billions of it He can send as much or as little into the battle lines as ashe ashe ashe he decides and that is nothing less than the position of international in commander What is requested is the complete strength of the nation in economic war war and and in these modern days that thatis is 90 per cent of military war with a margin over as deadly as military war if not more so This astonishing bill was prepared under the direction of Mr I Morgen- Morgen thau au in the treasury and there is good reason to believe that neither Secretary Stimson of war Secretary Knox of navy and Secretary Hull of state was consulted on its terms before it was published Somebody beside Henry the Morgue ought to tobe tobe tobe be consulted before we buy a ticket to perdition We Ve have no effective naval vessels vessels vessels ves ves- sels to send without hurting our na navy vy We can end send no modern tanks planes or guns that wouldn't delay the training of our army Aid to Britain yes but in this mom momen- momen en- en tive hysterical spasm cant can't somebody somebody somebody some some- body be thinking one little thought about the interest and security of the United States S LEND LEASE-LEND BILL What would have happened if two months ago anybody had proposed the lend lease-lend bill giving the President President President dent unlimited authority to engage in economic and possibly military war everywhere in the world to provide provide provide pro pro- vide a world-wide world bill of rights for people anywhere in the world and whether they want it or not Nobody can say precisely what would have happened but the chances certainly are strong that it would even have had a hearing Certainly earlier nobody could have campaigned for office and such a bill What has happened in the meantime meantime mean mean- time tune to incite public sentiment to entertain entertain entertain en en- such a perilous course such sucha a a revolution in our system of government government government gov gov- such an out all-out totalitarianism totalitarian totalitarian- ism in the United States Certainly not any greater danger to the belligerent belligerent belligerent bel bel- bel- bel nations that have our sym sym- pathy There have been some terrible terrible terrible ter ter- ter- ter bombings of cities but if anything anything anything any any- thing their actual military position has been much improved What has happened is the most effective war-ballyhoo war and propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda headed by a few sincere and masterful but certainly very rash men Over the air in the mail mall in inthe inthe inthe the press their voices for war Tar have been continuous and many times the volume of any voice for caution Popular polls have asked hypothetical ical military questions on which no mere layman would be likely to have havethe havethe havethe the facts and professional knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge to express any valuable opinion ion such ion such as Do you think Britain will lose the war if we do not give her all aid tJ Lacking access to any guiding facts except the incessant haranguing of the war-criers war who themselves are not much more competent competent competent com com- to give an opinion these salute voters say yes in substantial substantial sub sub- l majorities to the question Shall we go to war tJ jit It It is mostly fantastical nonsense this government by harangue and unofficial plebiscite but the result is not nonsense It is the stark national nation nation- lend lease-lend bill subjecting subjecting sub sub- a al tragedy of the the wealth the pea peace e and the welfare of our country in warto war warto to to tol the discretion of a single man wino who who with almost unlimited war powers power's powers powers pow pow- ers er's in in the past for preparation and defense has not used them wisely y or or well If he had we should be In Inno in inno inno no such panic as we are today 1 I Just as the public has been war- war danced and tom tomed by eq equivocal ivo al propaganda into even considering such a bill so that bill itself is not candid It would be far better and more more honest to appropriate to lend or give Britain Gr Greece ece or China to be spent here for munitions than to authorize the he President to engage our entire strength in arms and resources resources in economic war everywhere in the world and to guarantee freedom of speech and worship and from want and war anywhere in the world |