SENATE ATTACK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 7

SENATE ATTACK

“INFLAMMATORY” STATEMENTS I CHARGED WITH CREATING WAR HYSTERIA (Received 15th April, 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 14th ApriL 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 tements by President Roosevelt and other officials.

Senator George (Democrat, Georgia) led the attack, using President Roosevr'.’s Warm Springs farewell, ‘Til be back in the autumn if we don’t have war,” as the text. Senator George said the declaration aroused “genuine fear throughout the nation that somebody had afforded some encouragement to the distinguished statesman (Lord Halifax) who to-day said that the United States is in full sympathy with or shared fully the expressions which have just been made in the House of Commons by the English Prime Minister.

Senator George added that he was resolved to vote against war and he was convinced that Congress would vote the same way. “It should be made abundantly clear to European people that we do not propose to enter any European war.”

Senator Vandenburg. commenting on the imputation of American approval of the British sourse said that any such aclior would have to come from a majority of members of Congress before “it will have the slightest validity.”

Senator Bridges in a statement accompanying the resolution charged President Roosevelt directly with creating war hysteria.

Senator Reynolds echoed the charge without specifically naming the President. adding, "The only people In the whole world who are excited about what Is happening in Europe are Americans. We are exercising ourselves because we cannot get into war. We almost want to go to war.”