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Detroit News-People can be sure have the guidance of national affairs that nobody in authority will any step committing us to war unless the people support it. Emotion got us into the last World War. But we realized later by the middle of. 1920's at any rate-that if we had used our minds we would have stayed out.... America can best serve clvi- lization by staying out.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch-Americans of Europe. may weep for the fate But our first, and last, concern - is America. There is nothing to add to
moving President Roosevelt's'
We know morial of last night. cannot escape the shock of a Europe at war. But we have gone to Europe, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin-The have left our dead there, turned the we could not President's tone and the content of tide of battle, but
We have his utterance showed a restraint make peace for Europe. evidencing a high sense of respon- learned that lesson, and we must not sibility. This is no time for partisan, forget. factional or group sniping and criminations.
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St. Petersburg (Fla.) Independent-- This is the war that need never have happened.
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'Hartford (Conn.) Times-It will re- at peace quire patience to remain
Yet this people, unquestionably, why our sees no present reason
thought should be of participation in the war, has every determination to New Orleans States-The world maintain a policy of neutrality and to-day places the
war aloofness from the conflict and every and hate where it belongs, on the hope that this policy will keep head of Adolf Hitler. No one wants from the fighting.
to war on the German people who.
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have had little to say about the pre- Charlotte, N.C., News-All our in- sent conflagration. The President terests and feelings decree that voices the sentiment of America shall want England and France when he says the United States must win as 'quickly as possible-to allow be kept out.
them to buy arms here, as they are international under entitled to do be- law. The arms embargo, in fact, will lieves America can and should stay probably be repealed in short order.
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But it recognises that the longer the war lasts, especial- ly if it goes against the democracies, greater the dan- ger of American involvement. It be- lleves plain com- mon sense and na- tional interest re- quire that this country throw
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PEACE OFFENSIVE
in the supreme We are now phase of the "war of nerves". As far as the peoples of Great Britain and, I believe, of France are concerned, there is little pros- pect that Hitler will win this tria! of grit. Mr. Wickham Steed.
open its resources to all nations who can come and buy American goods of whatever sort.
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But it is going to smoke us more clearly out into the open than would have been the case had it been pealed by the last session of Con- gress.
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Oklahoma Oklahoman Un- thinkable but not entirely impossible not fairly early is an ultimate if
of offensive and defensive alliance Great Britain, France, the United States. Italy and Japan.. It is ex- tremely fantastic. But no more
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Nazis and Communists.. fantastic until this whole horrible, nightmare of Hitlerism has been ex- orcised, no more to trouble the re- pose of civilized nations..
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Chattanooga News-There is this compensating balm-the beginning of the general war. marked also the of Adolf beginning of the decline Hitler.
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New York World-Telegram-Let's instead of be enlightenedly selfish, emotional, for a change. Let's keep
Chattanooga Times-No people constantly in mind that our greatest
will which believes in the basic principles contribution to the final peace. . .
through staying out, not of democracy can fail to sympathize mixing in; through helping in every with Great Britain and France in their way we can to restore International decision to aid Poland. But all this does not mean we should fail to be sanity.
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Minneapolis, Minn., Star-Journal- sticks to As long as the President those ideals there can be no quarrel, and he has paved the way for America to stay out of war.
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Washington Post-Both mind and conscience are stimulated by Mr. Roosevelt when he suggests that our
influence should from this moment be thrown in the direction of a final Atlanta Journal-Adolf Hitler has peace which will make impossible brought Europe to this disaster. But continuation of such
· ឆន aggression we can also see that America
now that for which the dictatorships have can best serve her own interests and come to stand. those of humanity by keeping out of the armed conflict.
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Newark, NJ., Evening News--Our tion's response to the President's ap- Government promises keep us peal for unity in pursuit of peace is: "We are with you!" The wish of the neutral, but there is no disposition here, unless the national temper is American people to stay out of it- to be misjudged, for us to enact the as long as possible is unanimous. role of a rich man passing on other side of ก stricken Europe.
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St. Paul Pioneer Press-President Roosevelt has sensed and well pressed in his address to the nation of Sunday night how the onrush of the European catastrophe has over- shadowed the troubles of the United States.
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New York Journal and American- If the President wants to keep out of waras it is evident from his broadcast that he does-if the Con- gress acts intelligently to keep us out of war, if the people continue their desire, so often expressed, to keep out of European conflicts, there is no reason why we should become volved in this European catastrophe.
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New York Times-With the first way National unity here must shot we are warned that the depend on the restraint, good will of the neutral is going to be vory and patriotism of those
who hard. man