Early In The Next Congress ...
CAPPER, SEN. ARTHUR
Early In The Next Congress ... The drive will be on to amend the Johnson and Neutrality Acts, predicts Sen. Capper of America's Middlewest . . . Then Britain could say the word, and America would...
...Our job is to see that the people get the facts, and that there are no 'smart tricks' put over on them...
...A strong advocate of public ownership, Perry until a year ago was president of the Wisconsin Development Authority, for which he battled in the 1937 session...
...Devere Allen and Norman Thomas...
...But their strategic value with reference to our Panama Canal is very great...
...They will be expenditures...
...If private loans would satisfy the situation, repeal of the Johnson act would not be necessary at all...
...We are • engaged in a national-defense program that calls for expenditures of at least another 50 billions in the next five or six years, even if we do not go to war ourselves...
...Recently a $122,000,000 contract for airplane engines was given Henry Ford, but labor did not put up a real battle because the War Department insisted the engines were urgently needed and that plant capacity for this work was virtually exhausted...
...For both Canada and Australia could borrow from the United States and lend in turn to Britain...
...To meet and help turn the tidal wave of war and dictatorship, to ally ourselves with the forces that really can build and defend democracy, the Youth Committee Against War calls upon all young people who are opposed to America's participation in the war and who are against totalitarianism all over the world to meet together during this Christmas season of 1940," the youth group states in its "call to action...
...The kind of a war I am afraid of, and want to stay out of, is a shooting war...
...2. No foreign power or group of powers can successfully attack a prepared America...
...I think I am quoting correctly the chairman of the committee that is trying to get us into war (the William Allen White Committee...
...Capper Prays America Won't Be Dragged Into War IAM OPPOSED TO letting down the bars for loans or credits...
...I hope and pray we will get through without dragging America into another European war...
...I am glad that a Senate committee is going to investigate this matter of financial holdings of foreign nations in the United States early in the coming session of Congress...
...ARTHUR CAPPERILOOK FOR TWO major,drives early in the next Congress to put the United States in position where it must go to war in Europe for Britain when Britain says the word...
...Anti-War Youth To Meet Despite Cold Reception DENIED shelter by both the University of Wisconsin and the First Congregational Church of Madison, the Youth Committee Against War will hold its national congress in the capital city of Wisconsin "even if we have to pitch tents on Capitol Square," Fay Bennett, New York City, committee executive secretary, declared this week...
...Gerald P. Nye, 47, North Dakota Republican, to Marguerite Johnson, 32, Rock Island, 111., school teacher, occurred in Iowa Falls, la., last week...
...These islands are not of any great economic value to Britain, generally speaking, they are liabilities rather than assets...
...After that, the job of getting all aid short of war, and including war, from the United States will be easy...
...Charles B. Perry, Veteran Legislator, Dies After Illness Charles B.< Perry, 85-year-old Republican who often supported Progressive legislation, died at his home in Milwaukee this week after a yeai's illness...
...That makes a total of seven billions of British Empire investments in the United States...
...Taxpayers Just Can't Carry Cost Of 'Loans' To Britain Ibelieve in adequate national defense...
...First major drive has been launched for revision of the Johnson act and the Neutrality act so that Britain may get credit — loans — in and from the United States...
...Pass This Paper On...
...We must become strong enough to do that job ourselves, when we are that strong, then we might be in position to form alliances as these seem to be called for by world situations...
...Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, writer...
...Sidney Hillman, labor's representative on the National Defense Commission, denounced the contract and demanded that the War Department transfer the orders to other manufacturers who are complying with the labor laws of the land...
...The financial statements of the local distributing agencies, compiled in a report by the TVA comptroller, showed that the combined net income amounted to more than 18% percent of the combined gross revenues of $21,624,000...
...The Ford Motor Company repeatedly has been found guilty of Wagner Act violations by the NLRB and the courts...
...Landon Urges Gifts Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee in 1936, last week advocated outright American gifts to Great Britain as a national defense measure...
...I am for national defense of the LTnited States...
...We already have a national debt of $50,000,000,000...
...The next three or four months will decide whether we are going into a shooting war or not...
...Pickup on Galley 5 Holdover The Youth Committee, an affiliate of the Keep America Out of War Congress, lists, among its sponsors John Haynes Holmes, minister...
...Capper of America's Middlewest . . . Then Britain could say the word, and America would be at war, he contends...
...But what Britain really wants is not just the privilege of floating loans — that means selling its bonds in the United States to individuals...
...British Holdings In U. S. Now Total 7 Billion Dollars LORD LOTHIAN'S appeal for credit for Britain from the United States early in 19 41'—he said it would be needed by the middle of next year—is not meeting with much favor, even among those who want the United States to go the limit and become an ally of Britain in the present war...
...Britain also wants the United States government to help finance the war, either through'loans or outright gifts of moneys or credits...
...For any foreign government in default on its previous war debts to the United States to be allowed to float loans in the United States, the Johnson Act would have to be repealed or amended...
...They will not be loans...
...Coupled with this proposal will be one that the United States Navy convoy these ships to England...
...Lawrence's statement: "It is amendment of the Neutrality act itself which is involved because the billions needed can be furnished only by our government...
...By SEN...
...That would make inevitable a sea battle between German and United States naval forces—and the alliance of Britain and the United States would be accomplished...
...Warnings by British officials that Britain lacks capacity to pay does not seem to square with the facts...
...I say the investigation should be very thorough...
...We hear too much of that...
...4. "All aid short of war" beyond the limitations of cash and carry, weakens national defense at home and threatens to involve America in war abroad...
...I am emphatically opposed to these huge loans by our government to other, governments...
...Nye Weds Teacher The marriage of Sen...
...Thomas S. Hammond, former senior brigade commander of the Illinois National Guard, swung into action as chairman of the Chicago chapter of the America First Committee...
...Paul Hutchinson, editor, Christian Century...
...Not only because of English shipping needs, but also because the sinking of a few American ships by Hitler's submarines or bombers would inflame all America, and the alliance with Britain would be accomplished in short order...
...But the future security of the United States—none of us knows what the European situation may be 100 years from now...
...There are the Bahama Islands, Barbadoes, Trinidad, most of the Windward and Leeward Islands...
...Mary Jo Up-hoff, educational director, Wisconsin Farmers Union...
...The comptroller reported that the $1,638,000 in taxes and tax equivalents provided by the systems "is considerably in excess of the property taxes, amounting to $1,503,000, paid during the last full year of private ownership...
...I am opposed to repeal of the cash-and-carry provisions of the Neutrality act...
...I am opposed to the United States becoming the world's policeman...
...But in the last analysis the defense of the United States is up to the United States —and we should never lose sight of this basic fact...
...We are going in within a short time as ill prepared as we have ever been because of the lack of mechanization of the American army...
...At the outset of the present war Britain's investments in other parts of the world amounted to something between 15 and 18 billion dollars...
...But the claim that Britain needs financing by the United States strikes rather a sour note even among the most pronounced pro-Britishers...
...Any such government loans we know at the start never will be repaid...
...As of July 31 this year, British holdings in the United States amounted to four and one-half billion dollars, plus another one and one-half billions owned in the United States by Canada and other British dominions...
...I believe we ought to prepare ourselves to defend ourselves against any and all possible aggressors...
...I have suspicions that British officials were not really as much interested in getting credits at this time as in getting the United States thoroughly and irrevocably committed to the cause of Britain...
...While on this matter, the United States might well be looking into the matter of French-owned islands and other possessions around the Caribbean...
...The award to Ford was assailed as a flagrant violation of the Commission's policy of refusing contracts to companies which violate the labor laws...
...And here is the significant sentence in Mr...
...Labor Assails Army Award To Ford Compan War Department award of a new $2,000,000 contract for automobiles and trucks to the Ford Motor Company appeared this week to be hastening a showdown between the Army and organized labor...
...British, French Islands Important For Real Defense IT IS TRUE THAT in the destroyer deal with Britain we got some 9 9-year leases from England for air and naval bases...
...Their only value to any European nation is their strategic—that means potential threat— value in any contest involving defense of the United States and the Western Hemisphere...
...6,000,000 Jobs Seen Total employment in the United States will climb by 6,000,000 by the fall of 1942 as a result of the rearmament program, the Twentieth Century Fund estimated this week...
...More than 500 American young men and women from factory, field, and campus are expected for the anti-war congress whose sessions will continue from Dec...
...And as expenditures, we should get whatever we can of real value in exchange...
...However, in the case of the new contract for cars and trucks, the orders could be filled by other makers who do abide by the labor laws...
...Speaking at a series of organization rallies, Gen...
...Lawrence writes, "but this is merely a drop in the bucket...
...Britain came through the previous World War without having to dispose of much of her overseas investments...
...I shall continue to do my best to keep out of it...
...We want the facts...
...Amendment Of Neutrality Act The Significant Decision THIS SITUATION, as those who believe the battle of Britain really is the battle of America— as the William Allen White committee declared through one of its publications almost immediately following the election—the situation, as these people see it, is very clearly argued by David Lawrence: "The talk has been of repealing the Johnson act so as to permit private loans to Britain," Mr...
...Britain needs help, and Britain is getting a lot of help from the United States...
...Sinking American Ships Would Inflame All America THE OTHER MAJOR drive I expect in the coming session of Congress is to repeal the "carry" .as well as the "cash" provision of the Neutrality act...
...Britain—and this is not a criticism of Britain, but just good British "ommon sense—Britain I say probably wants American ships to carry American-made munitions and other supplies to England...
...The real idea is to work up American public sentiment to the point where all Americans feel a personal and national responsibility for Britain's winning the war...
...Even at the peak of the defense program, it warned, at least 2,000,000 persons would be unemployed...
...Chicago Moves To Combat U. S. War Propaganda Chicago was the center of an intensive anti-war drive last week as Brig...
...I say it might be well worth while for us to consider buying some of these islands—preferably all of them—from Britain, and pay a good round price for them, before we consider lending or giving money and credits to Britain, with nothing of tangible value coming to the United States in exchange...
...He also urged abandonment of the 40-hour week, curtailment of relief expenditures, and the outlawing of strikes in essential rearmament industries...
...Hammond declared that the next three or four months will decide the issue...
...Nye met his future wife when he helped her fix a flat tire in Estes Park, Colo...
...We hear that we are already in a war," he sail...
...It Will Win New Friends...
...This was true despite the fact that the taxes and tax equivalents for the most part represented less than one full year's taxes, because some of the properties—notably those purchased from the Tennessee Electric Power Company—had been purchased during the fiscal year...
...The way we are going now we are going rapidly into a shooting war, a two ocean war, with a one ocean navy...
...Lawyer Perry served six terms in the assembly, where he was speaker in three sessions...
...Income of the systems before provision of $2,034,000 for interest, principally on bonds held by the public, was $6,057,000, a return of 7 y2 percent on an average investment for the year of approximately $80,000,000...
...I look forward to the coming months with a heavy heart...
...3. American democracy can be preserved only by keeping out of the European war...
...Britain has some real estate in the West Indies...
...The University of Wisconsin closed its doors to the anti-war group because, as its committee in control claimed, the presence of the congress might "embarrass" Clarence A. Dykstra, university president and administrator of the draft...
...27 to 30...
...Public Plants In TV A Region Net Tidy Profit Customers of 106 municipal and cooperative electric systems, saving more than $9,000,000 annually through TVA rates in the fiscal yea-r 1940, saw their publicly and cooperatively owned utilities earn an aggregate net income of $4,023,-000 after providing $1,638,000 "in tax money," the Tennessee Valley Authority revealed last week...
...From the viewpoint of our own national defense, these islands ought to be owned by the United States, not by any European power, even though that power today is a very friendly one...
...The principles of the America First Committee are: 1. The United States must build an impregnable defense for America...
...The French possessions in that neighborhood are of value to us for defense of the Panama Canal and our own shoreline...
...We Should Own British Islands In West Indies THERE IS ANOTHER thing that I believe should be thoroughly explored, and perhaps utilized, before we begin lending—or just plain outright giving —of billions of dollars to Britain...
...I am opposed to repeal of the Johnson act...
Vol. 4 • December 1940 • No. 51
