The Archive · 1941

Pepper Urges Action Not Words

Senator Claude Peppe of Florida, in a spece! night, admitted that the United States was disunited and uncertain.

"It may be that the Democracies have become too soft ever to become tough again." he "The Democracies have not learned the value of time.... They debate while dictators act... They quibble while Dictators are certain."

Senator Pepper charged that the Democracies, in ti onslaughts against dictatorships "have let wishful thinking and not common sense be their guide...It may be that Hitler is right when he sneers at Democracy's capacity to survive in this fierce struggle...

"There is among us division, discord, discontent and unci In some cases there is flagrant disloyal-

"I am comforted by the knowledge that there is in the White House another Abraham Lincoln.. We must arise above the distractions of the moment and get a long view of what we have been and what we are and what the Gods have made us for."—

United Press.

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