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d % “+ From America First Committee . RELEASE TU MORNING PAPERS oo 515 Madison Avenue . , New York City OF THURSDAY, APRIL 24, APPEARING ON THE STREET NOT EARLIGR THAN 10 P.u. (EST) (EDITORS-= The following text of the address of Kathleen Norris, noted American novelist, before the America First rally at Manhattan Center, 311 West 34th Street, New York City, is for release at 9 P.M., the time at which she is scheduled to start her talk. PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE RELEASE) Speaking for hundreds of thousands of American women, wives, mothers and sisters, I am bringing you a message here tonight to remind you of certain events, in our history and the history of Europe, that it is the duty of every good American woman to remember now. One of the most important is that Burope has been at war for a thousand years. She has never settled a boundary. None of her nations has ever formed a permanent friendship. Wo Lincoln, no unity, harmony, prosperity and peace, such as cur own beloved country has lmow for so many yoars. Every nation in Europe has quarrelied with every other nation. Every borderline has been soaked, in each generation, with young blood. They speak to us now of defending democracy, and de- fending a certain type of living. There is no democracy there. And their sort of living never has been ours, and never will be ours. Perhaps the most amazing thing about their incessant quarrels, and the fact that one country or another is alwaye pro- claiming itseif the victor, is that they do not seriously affect each other's nationalities er change the contours of their map. . Bo that we must draw the conclusion that these quarrels are really trade quarrels, and that the treaties, or the peace, as they eall 4t, after the quarrel, are based on purely materialistic grounds, and not upon ethnic or geographical lines. You can take a map of Europe five hundred years old, or one three hundred yeare old, and you will find the nations wery much in the same places as they were before the hundred years wer, wre te - : ane re) *. ah . or er aoe . Le