Mr. Knutson urged Congressmen to adopt a cautious policy and said German atrocity stories of 1918 were now "being dished up in another form."
Mr. John W. McCormack, Massa-efts Democrat and Hou: spon-r of the bill, said it wás a "peace measure."
"The real warmongers," Mr. Me-Cormack declared, "are those opposing it, thereby blindly attempting to divide our people. Division... now might result fu destruction. What do you think Nazi Germany or Army-controlled Japan would do to the U.S. should the Axis powere be vice torious?"
"My Novena!
Clu yesterday's debate on the bill, a woman shrouded in black and wearing a mask on which a skull was painted, shouted and shook her fists from the public gallery. She screamed, "My novena! My Novenal"
Attendants removed her quickly and she was identified as Margaret Russell from New York She said she wanted to express opposition to the bill.
The demonstration interrupted a speech favouring the bill by one representative who was recounting Me stances when he said British naval units stood by near American units in the face of threatened clashes with German ships during the Spanish-American War,
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