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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 9

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SENATORS CRITICAL.

Mr. Roosevelt Charged As Cause Of War Hysteria. WOULD AMERICA FIGHT? United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 14. Senatorial displeasure at President Roosevelt's utterances on foreign affairs was given an airing in the Senate, culminating in a resolution introduced by Senator Bridges (Republican, New Hampshire) calling on the Senate to disapprove of inflammatory "war statements by President Roosevelt and other officials." Senator George (Democrat, Georgia) led the attack, using President Roosevelt's Warm Springs' farewell remark, "I will be back in the autumn if we don't have war," as the text. He said the declaration aroused a "genuine fear throughout the nation that somebody had afforded some encouragement to a distinguished English statesman (Viscount Halifax), who to-day said that the United States was in full sympathy with, or shared fully, expressions which had just been made in the House of Commons by the British Prime Minister. Would Vote Against War. Senator George added that he was resolved to vote against war. He was convinced that Congress would vote the same way. He expressed the opinion that it should be made abundantly clear to European people that America did not propose to enter any European war.

Senator W. F. George.

Senator Vandenberg, commenting on the imputation of American approval of the British course, said that any such action would have to come from a majority of the members of the Congress before "it will have the slightest validity."

Senator Bridges, in a statement accompanying his resolution, charged Mr. Roosevelt directly with creating war hysteria.

Senator Reynolds echoed the charge without specifically naming the President.