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Last September, 29 days after Hitler's armies marched into Poland, world events touched Burton Wheeler. He declared himself for embargo of arms shipments to any & all belligerents, against sending U. S. boys off to Europe's wars. Last February, he mildly denounced Franklin Roosevelt for paying more attention to World War II than to internal U. S. affairs. By last fortnight, Mr. Wheeler's evolution was proceeding apace. Said he (to the International League for Peace & Freedom): "I want to do everything to help the Allies stamp out the brutal forces which seek to dominate Europe...
Making his first public statement on the war since his letter to Alf Landon favoring repeal of the arms embargo last October, President Conant will speak tonight over a nation-wide hook-up of the Columbia broadcasting system on "Immediate Aid to the Allies...
...letter of October 4th to the former Republican Presidential candidate, President Conant approved embargo repeal and pleaded for an unemotional approach. He said of the Allies, "I believe if these countries are defeated by a totalitarian power, the hope of free institutions as a basis of modern civilization will be jeopardized...
Last autumn the U. S. Congress met in special session to debate repeal of the arms embargo in the Neutrality Act-a session solemnly heralded as "The Great Debate." But Session II of the 76th Congress went through the motions in a curious air of unreality: the Great Debate didn't come off; the President talked boldly, the Senate debated boldly, on all the secondary points-nowhere could the press or the public find candor, willingness to face or seek facts. The embargo was repealed, Congress went home, Mr. Roosevelt went to Warm Springs-in an atmosphere of somnolent...
...help the Allies with every measure short of war. It claims that the President, being in touch with confidential State Department cables, sees enough danger in the possibility of a Nazi victory to go ahead full blast with economic aid to the Allies. Thus he has repealed the arms embargo, denounced the dictatorships, and interned Finnish, Norwegian, and Danish credit to keep it away from Germany. We can see what the President has done, but he won't tell us why he has done it. He has never stated exactly what stake, political and economic, this country...