AIDING DEMOCRACIES
New Organization Formed (Received December 29, 9.15 p.m. i NEW YORK, December 28. The Interfaltli Committee for the Aid of the Democracies, which is a new organization of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant clergy and laymen, issued a declaration urging I hat war supplies should be freely given or lent to Britain. It urged President Roosevelt lo call a conference of the democracies, including the invaded countries, in order to "counsel together for the defence of liberties and set forth in a common purpose to achieve a world in which free men can live.” The chairman is Dr. Henry Sloane Coflin, president of the Union Theological Seminary, ami the secretary is Dr. Henry Atkinson, of the Church Peace Union. Thttse who signed the declaration include Catholic and Protestant Bishops, Rabbis and a Jesuit. NATIONAL GUARD CALL-UP WASHINGTON. December 27. President Roosevelt has called up -12.000 more National Guardsmen for active duty from January 17, leaving 54.000 that, can be called up before the entire guard is under training.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 81, 30 December 1940, Page 8
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