WAR RESOLUTION
' PROPOSED IN CONGRESS by’ isolationist member. IN HOPE OF SEEING IT DEFEATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, November 7. In the House of Representatives the
isolationist leader, Mr Hamilton Fish, introduced a resolution calling for a declaration of war against Germany. The resolution would also authorise the President to “employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States to carry on war against Germany.”
Mr Fish admitted that he opposed the resolution, and said he believed it would be defeated three to one. He declared: “The time has come for a showdown. If the President wants to put us into the war he should do it in' an honest, honourable American way and send a message to Congress.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 6
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122WAR RESOLUTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 6
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