PRESIDENT ATTACKED
PRESENCE AT SERVICE PRAYERS FOR KING NEUTRALITY BILL VOTE (Reed. Oct. 24, 3 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Senator Bennett Clark, in the Senate debate to-day on the bill to amend the neutrality Act, criticised yesterday’s special service at Hyde Park, during which President Roosevelt listened tc a prayer for the King. “At a time like this, instead of reading the King’s prayer book,'we had better go to Williamsburg, where a minister of the oldest church in the United States has scratched from the Snglish prayer book, ‘God Save the King,’ and substituted ‘God Save the President of the United States,’ ” he declared.
Senator A. W. Barkley asked if Senator Clark really attached significance to the incident.
Senator Clark replied: “I certainly do not want to impose upon the President the duty to walk out of the church.” He added, however, the fact that the President posed for a picture later with the rector had not tended to add anything to the world’s picture of American impartiality. Senate leaders have advised President Roosevelt to anticipate a vote next Friday. Resuming the attack, Senator Nye made a charge that the measure would not prevent an American ship landing arms in Belgium for transhipment to the French, "or German armies for that matter.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 11
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212PRESIDENT ATTACKED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 11
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