"DON'T NEED HELP"
ISOLATIONIST'S OPINION
WASHINGTON, August 25. The United Press of America say* Administration supporters applauded Mr. Churchiil's speech, particularly the warning to. Japan, but the isolationist, Senator Wheeler, claimed thatit was designed to frighten the United ! States into the idea that "we have to get into the war now or else Hitler will get us." Unofficial sources interpreted Mr. Churchill's pledge that Great Britain would stand by the side of the United States in the event of trouble in the Pacific as one of the most sweeping British commitments to American Far East policy. Senator Wheeler, referring to the foregoing, said: "We do not need help from Britain or anybody else. We are able to take care of ourselves." The chairman of the House Foreign, Affairs Committee, Mr. Sol Bloom, said Mr. Churchill had given new hope to the conquered nations and enslaved peoples. Surely no one, he added, would doubt the real purpose of the principles of the eight-point charter conceived by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1941, Page 7
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