Speeches Philadelphia, June 20.
The Republican Party, confident that President Roosevelt made a political blunder by giving extensive support to the Allies, yesterday opened its platform meetings to the spokesmen of special groups.
Mr. Alfred London, presidential candidate in the 1938 elections, warned that "the United States cannot keep from war if Roosevelt continues to say and do any damned thing he pleases." Mr. London attacked the President's plan to inaugurate compulsory service in the United States.
Mr. William Green, the President of the American Federation of Labour, however, told the Party's resolutions committee that "every ounce of assistance and support should be given the Democracies in Europe short war."
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