Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Isolationist Democrat from Montana, yesterday challenged President Roosevelt to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. Senator Wheeler said that he would personally give full support to the American war effort if Congress granted such a request, thus answering White House charges that he was "sabotaging" the defence effort, "The reason Mr, Roosevelt does not come to Congress is that he knows he would not get a declaration of war by Congress Senator Wheeler declared, "Instead of taking us step by step through the back door of the European war, why doesn't the President come to Congress and ask for a declaration of war? That is the honest thing to do....it would be a way to obtain national unity,"—United Press.
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