A speech by the Montana senator in the lead-up to America's involvement in World War II. He criticizes the government for stockpiling war supplies such as caskets. He describes the war as Europe's war. Criticizing House Bill 1776, he says it will sever the independence America won from the UK in 1776 and will allow the president to wage an undeclared war in defense of a foreign entity. Following, Burton criticizes how the government has transferred military arms to Britain even without H.R. 1776. However, he feels private citizens’ financial aid to other countries is each citizen’s private right. He notes that the non-interventionalist foreign policy is not fashionable despite its root in the Founding Fathers’ rhetoric. He cites a poll that over eighty percent of the American population opposes a declaration of war.