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APPEASERS BOD F,D,R.AND ALLIES IN MEETING HERE Cheer | Long and Lindbergh; Laugh at ist Lady. -- ' BY FRANK SMOTHERS. Britain and Russia were booed “last night, China’s war supply needs made a ‘subject for laughter and America’s commander in chief ridiculed at a meeting of William G. Grace's revamped Citizens’ Gommittee, in session at 32 West Randolph street." Before Pearl Harbor it was the Citizens’ Keep America Out of War Committee. Grace now has reor- ganized with the shorter name. As principgl speaker the Rev. Gerald L_K- Smith, Detroit spell- hinder, chairman oF what he calis the Committee of a Million, cajoled the crowd for almost two hours. A crowd of some 500 filled the 12th- floor meeting hall. The crowd cheered ang epplauded the names of Chanjes A..indbergh' Col, Robert R. PMcCormick, the Chicago Tribune, ator C. Way- land#Srook# the late SeratorgHyey P, Long, Senator Gerald Pi Nye, Representative Clarence § Day, and ' “America First.” *- ; Hit Treason Charges, . | & great chorus of enthusiastic *.-“ayes” adopted a resolution that attacked Representative Raymond | ° &. McKeough's charge in Congress of treason against McCormick. The resolution endorsed “most heartily” the Tribune and its “editorial pol- icy,” and paid tribute to the “pa- trictism” of McCormick -- - All but a sew in the audience were middle-aged or elderly. Faces of most were stern as they entered. No men in uniform were seen, _ As in similar meetings before Pearl Harbor Lindbergh's name above all was magic with the crowd. Its first mention by Smith brought the house down with cheers, high shrieks of women, long hand-clapping. To that Smith came McCormick, Huey| ~ ALL INFORM? TION-CONTAINED. N ‘DATE__fae ez BY SArencic_ IED - ! HERE: € UNCLASS) '. dent,” said the preacher. oT —_— - —— > the Jewish citizens of America. ’ war and said that if his “6-foot son ‘. sig, not Britain, not the in’ . ' “Union Now” he chastised repeat-i- -. Britain and Russia in the war, he ‘extolled his old intimate, Huey Long, as. “the Lincoln of the - South.” c . tory” in the war, but that “victory” ‘ people. He didn’t want a “victory” " would be that which destroyed the - he proclaimed. “The only victory ‘ would be that which preserved it.” : fterated that what he wanted was Brooks and for Grace ag a congres- q E . 3 § g 3 z rr with him—“of America.” -. . The house came down when Smith said America First should not have disbanded and when he Smith declared he was far “vic~ meant different things to different that would “make Eleanor presi- “The only defeat for America AZGRARRe RN oe das independent destiny of -America,” ‘Throughout hi# speech Smith re- victory for a.“Christian America,” nor did the cheering crowd misun- derstand his implicetion regarding §- * He painted the horrors of the comes back to his beautiful mother and myself in a wheelchair or], blind or in a casket I pray Jet it be a victory for us, not Rus-!: tional bankers.”. .The Heds . Nominating petitions were circu- [ lated in the anteroom of the hall /: and mary signatures secured for