Women shout against aid to Britain and hang effigy (2-14-41)

Reading Eagle (February 14, 1941)

WOMEN SHOUT AGAINST AID TO BRITAIN AND HANG EFFIGY

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At left, Mrs. Mynnie Fischer, of Milwaukee, leader of a group of women demonstrators against the administration’s British-aid bill, is “waltzed” out at Washington by Lieut. Walter H. Hunt, of the Capitol police. She was ousted when the women started shouting outside the Senate chamber. At right, demonstrators opposing the British-aid bill hanged this two-faced effigy representing President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie on the British Embassy wall. They said they represented the Paul Revere Sentinels and the Women’s Neutrality League.

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