“MAD DICTATOR”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 6

“MAD DICTATOR”

DESPOILER OF NATIONS HITLER ASSAILED OUTSPOKEN AMERICAN NEUTRALITY DEBATE

(Elec. Tel. Copyright —Umtoil Press Assn.) j (Reed. Oct. 21, 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Speaking in the neutrality debate in the Senate to-day, Senator Bar- j hour said that the United States i could help Canada under the exist- . ing neutrality law and he contended i that an attack on Canada would ; not only violate the Monroe Doc- j trine, but would force the United j States into war. Under the present law the United States could sell aeroplanes to Russia for resale to Germany, while i they were barred to Canada with whom Americans had lived in peace for a century. Senator Ellenclen violently attacked iTerr Hitler as a '‘mad dictator and insaiiahlc despoiler of men and nations and a violator of treaties." He then asked why should the Amori- ' can Government be afraid of offend- j mg him by doing what it wished in ; the way of sales of munitions. Senator Johnson, of California, labelled as idiotic the assumption that if Herr Hitler were to conquer Europe. America would be next. He added that again England in the play of power politics lias not an equal and when this war was over she would be at the same old game, and at which snobbish Americans would still be trying their hand. Senator Johnson concluded that the repeal of the arms embargo would place America in the shadow of “walking down the bloody path of war.