SENATORS ANGRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 5

SENATORS ANGRY

DENUNCIATIONS OF CONANT o SPEECH FEARS OF SLIPPING INTO WAR. PROPAGANDA CARRIED TOO FAR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 4. Denouncing Mr Conant’s speech. Senator Nye, speaking in the Senate, alleged that a campaign calculated to involve the United States in war had begun in Canada. Senator Holt said he was convinced that, the United States was slipping into the war. He added: "Americans are not responsible for the Cromwells, Bullitts and other tea hounds representing the country." Senator Pepper said: “Conant, like any other fellow hard, pressed in a fight, is hollering for. help, and 1 don't blame him.”

Senator Murray said that the speech was a normal statement for a Canadian. Mr Hamilton Fish, in. the House of Representatives, said: “Mr Conant has carried his propaganda a little too far. Ninety-five per cent of Americans, regardless of party, insist, on staying out of Europe’s wars unless they are attacked by a foreign foe. American soldiers are not Hessian mercenaries or for sale at any price,” He added, however, that if Canada were invaded the United States ought to go to her assistance. “That is,” he said, “if she is actually invaded, and not if a few shots are fired from a submarine or a few bombs dropped from an aeroplane.”

Mr Conant, who is Attorney-Gen-eral in the province of Ontaria, declared in a speech that: “Canada's supreme duty is to make every effort short of impairing its status as a sovereign nation to bring the United States into the war on the Allies’ side.”

POLISH DOCUMENTS DEMAND FOR AN INQUIRY. Washington, April 5. In the Senate today Senator Vandenberg urged an inquiry into the German White Paper, on alleged Polish Foreign Office documents, because there was ‘considerable public restlessness and anxiety over the maintenance of our ultimate neutrality in the light of recent events.”