ON ROAD TO WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 7

ON ROAD TO WAR

OPPOSITION VIEW

POINTS FOR A NEGOTIATED

PEACE

WASHINGTON, December 30

Senator Wheeler, speaking on the radio, said: "The United States is no longer trudging along the road to war —we are running. If we lend or lease war materials today we will lend or lease American boys tomorrow." Senator Wheeler again proposed to lead a campaign for a negotiated peace. He outlined the basis of what he considered a just peace, proposing eight points:—(l) The restoration of Germany's 1914 boundaries, with an autonomous Poland and Czechoslovakia; (2) the restoration and independence of France, Holland, Norway, Belgium, and Denmark; (3) the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to France; (4) the restoration of the German colonies; (5) the protection of racial and religious minorities in all countries; (6) the mternationalisation of the Suez Canal, (7) no indemnities or reparations; and (8) arms limitation. . Senator Holt told the Senate that the Administration's strategy was to provoke the Axis to declare war against the United States. He said that the drive to war was not based on a desire to protect democracy but on the cold, almighty dollar. _ General Robert Wood, chairman of the America First Committee, said Mr. Roosevelt's speech was "virtually a personal declaration of undeclared war against Germany." He said it was time for the Administration to make clear to Britain that the American people, in aiding Britain, would stop before methods which meant war. "By rejecting a negotiated peace Mr. Roosevelt has taken on himself a large share of the responsibility for the continuation of the war," he added.