Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              THE   BOSTON:.'DAILY .   JANUARY "27
A_d Bill Dictator Measure,1£&
Says Short at Faneuil Hall

Congressman Denounces Roosevelt
For 'Most Preposterous Proposal'
Calling the "lease-lend legislation ipatiently on the sidelines, will step
nothing but a dictator bill that will!in and plant a.social revolution in
put all the power of the Government
in the hands of one man in violation
of the Constitution," Congressman
Dewey-J. Short of Missouri last
night declared: "God help us that
we. don't set up a Hitler here to
get rid of one 4000 miles away."
\ Speaking at Faneuil Hall before
an audience of almost 1000 persons,
•that.continually rose in' shouts of
approval, he bitterly criticized Prcs-
the ruin'and chaos that will remain."
"The only thing we will get out
of war will be greater debts, deeper
depression and more graveyards—
but not by my vote." he said. "Never
will I send-an American" youth to
fight in •countries, where democracy
is dead. I'm going to fight to keep
them here to protect this country's
democracy."
Assails "Rubber Stamps" . i
Assailing the "nit-wits, the rubber
ident Roosevelt for taking "thc third- ; stamps in Congress."- Short shouted
,term election as a mandate to offer
.the Congress • of the United' States
the most preposterous proposal ever
offered iri a democratic government "
"We don't have to set up a one-man
government to keep the country out
of war. Wc.don't have to change the'
Constitution   to   bring   back   pros
|   Waving   his   arms   and   dashingn>erity any more than we have to
from one  part of the platform to kill a dog to kill its fleas.    Some
'ee.a.ttl'a.AftB    a ma,     *%     *Va_^I__.»e_4     al^aa I inn^.a. i.aaa
'another in a violent denunciation of
|what he termed thc "lease-lose" bill,
the Republican Representative said
he was' making his address at the
request'* of    Congressman    George
fleas arc good for a dog. They keep
his mind from the continual fact!
that he is a dog." .'   .
Pointing   out' that  the   Constitution established three governmental'
Holden-Tinkham, "a man who says departments to "keep check on oncj
what he means and-means what he;.inother,"   Short   said.   "Wc -have
Power to Make War
"Vfcfare told by the leader." he
continued, "that we are to police
the world. How come he omitted
Heaven and Hell?"
Repeating a statement he made in
Massachusetts three years ago, Short
declared President Roosevelt should
have been impeached when, after
taking the oath of office to uphold!
the Constitution, "he demanded of
Congress to pass legislation whether
it was constitutional or not."
He nredictcd the war would end
in a:stalemate, even if this country
Criticizing Roosevelt because "he
takes your dough and mine and
spreads it to perpetuate himself." he
said the last election was "not an
election but a public sale."
Fears of German invasion of this
country he discarded as absurd.
"How can Hitler cross thousands of
miles when he can't even cross the
English Channel?" he asked. '
A great trouble with this country,.
he said, is that it is always taking'
sides.    "Whether  it be a" baseball
game, a divorce or a war, wc must'
take sides."
Other     speakers     were?-' Tudor'
.   Gardiner Jr., Harvard Law* School
(entered it, ahd.that Russia, "sitting student,,and.Capt-JohriJ J.'-Murphy.