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...good sign: consistently through the debate Wheeler and his henchmen have striven to assume the martyr's crown, to be regarded as a tiny group of courageous idealists struggling against hopeless odds. The tactic was working well, because the Administration strategy was failing. Majority Leader Alben Barkley had advised patience and silence, to let the isolationists wear themselves out. This plan of masterly inactivity had flopped frightfully. The isolationists were being supported enthusiastically by the nation's largest newspaper chains (Hearst and Scripps-Howard-although Roy Howard began to recant last week -see p. 59); by the nation...
...debate dragged on, Majority Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky calculated that the opposition would scrape barrel-bottom in a few days...
...second-floor study. They had come to discuss with Mr. Roosevelt H.R. 1776, the Lend-Lease Bill (see p. 17). In the comfortable room at the White House, the argument came down to the kind of simple talk any U. S. citizen could understand. Present were Speaker Rayburn, Senators Barkley and George, and Congressmen MacCormack, Bloom and Luther Johnson - and the two Republican leaders: Senator McNary and Congressman Joe Martin. The dialogue was almost as simple as this : Joe Martin: What's your objective, Mr.President - what do you want...
...Conferred at length with Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace; then the Cabinet; then with five Cabinet members, Defense Chief Knudsen, Senators Barkley, Connally, Harrison and George, Representatives Rayburn, McCormack and Bloom, Luther Johnson and Treasury Counsel Edward H. Foley Jr. Subject: new lend-lease bill to aid Britain without limit...
...sensation is fine as long as you keep going" (Representative Richard Wigglesworth, Massachusetts); "The deficit . . . threatens the solvency of the U. S. The President still believes in spending Government money as if it were water" (Senator Robert Taft, Ohio); "... A minimum of what we ought to do . . ." (Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky); "My digestion is not good enough to take it down at one gulp" (Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan); "I'm for adequate national defense, if it takes our shirt" (Senator Tom Connally, Texas); "... a trick budget . . . juggling of figures . . . what we need today is to curtail drastically non-defense...