ISOLATIONIST APPEAL
LONG SPEECH BY SENATOR WHEELER “DON’T TAKE COUNTRY INTO WAR.” COMPLAINT ABOUT NAVAL REPAIRS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 6. The United States Senate today commenced a review of the Neutrality Act, on which a vote will be taken this evening. The isolationist, Senator Wheeler, in the Senate today said: “We are sending our boys out to sea in destroyers out of repair because our navy yards are filled with British ships.” Senator Wheeler then read newspaper clippings quoting letters from sailors of the Reuben James supporting hiS charge that the destroyer needed repairing, but went out from Boston unrepaired because the navy yard was too busy repairing British ships. He added: “I haven’t any jobs to offer you. I haven't any patronage, and judgeships I can hold out, but I appeal to you as I have never appealed before in the name of America, in the name of mothers and fathers, ‘Don’t take this country into war.’ ” Senator Wheeler’s speech took nearly nine hours and spread over two days.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 4
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172ISOLATIONIST APPEAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 4
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