March of women urged in protest against lend-lease (1-27-41)

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The Pittsburgh Press (January 27, 1941)

MARCH OF WOMEN URGED IN PROTEST

Chicago, Jan. 27 (UP) –
Ross M. Furber of Detroit, Mich., vice president of the Mothers of the United States of America, in an extemporaneous appeal before 4,000 persons at an anti-war meeting last night, called on the women of America to march on Washington in protest against the lend-lease bill.

Mrs. Farber, who went to Washington last summer to participate in the mothers’ “death march” at Senate hearings on the Neutrality Bill amendment and was one of the women who burned Senator Claude Pepper (D-FL) in effigy, made her appeal at a meeting sponsored by the Citizens Keep America Out of War Committee.

She called for women volunteers to march on the Capitol in a “revive the republic movement” as a protest against H.R. 1776.

She said:

Our group is not pacifist, but we want to defend America on American soil.

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An interesting fact about Claude Pepper is that unlike every other congressman I know of he started in the Senate & then went to the House of Representatives.

Edit: Scratch that, 6th President John Quincy Adams was also in the Senate before the interning the House.

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Here’s a picture of the effigy courtesy of The Washington Post (August 22, 1940).

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