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but both countries are being injured. This argument, however,
has no force with men who are seeking to impoverish our people
and to destroy our government.
Apparently the President made some sort of a secret military
alliance with the governments of England and France.
At a secret meeting with the Senate Military Affairs Committee
he is reported to have said that the "frontiers of France are
our frontiers." That is the traditional position of Great Britain.
He denounced this report as a "deliberate lie" but he would
not release the members of the Military Affairs Committee from
their pledge of secrecy, and he suppressed an investigation. Senator
Lundeen of Minnesota, who is a member of this committee
and attended this conference with the President, said in a speech
in the Senate that the President's statement to this committee, if
revealed, would "shock and stun" the American people.
The President pretends that he does not want war and that
he is trying to avoid it. He made two dramatic appeals to Hitler
to halt,—the first by radio, the second by message. In the
second he proposed to act as mediator and to call a conference
of the nations of the earth to enter into a ten-year truce.
On the day preceding this message he denounced Hitler in a
much publicized speech, as an aggressor and a disturber of
world peace.
This was not the way to bring about a conference and a tenyear
truce. If Mr. Roosevelt really desired such conference and
truce he would have submitted his offer in the usual way through
diplomatic channels, and not by proclaiming it from the housetops.
He desired that the offer should be rejected, and made it
as offensively as he could. It was made for "home consumption"
and to rally the people of America behind him.
He does not appear to have fooled many people. Dorothy
Thompson (Levy) and the other war mongers, all with one accord
clapped their hands and applauded—not because they
thought his offer was a step in the direction of peace, but because
they believed it to be a step in the direction of war. Nor
did it fool Hitler and Mussolini. Mussolini's paper said of it:
"We deny the President any right to intervene in European
questions because his country is not directly interested as well
as because he personally has not the slightest claim to assuming
the role of friendly and impartial mediator."
The article said President Roosevelt's appeal evidently was