in an open letter to the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, published here today, Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Church, urged him o make every use of his "great influence with the President and Cangress to bring about a declara'ien of war against Hitler and other similar monsters.
The Bishop added that a huge change would be brought—apout immediately in the attitude of nations the world if the United States were to abrogate the "cowardly Neutrality Act" and declare war upon Germany. Despair, he concluded, would give glace to hope.—Havas.
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