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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress is now going to debate is whether the repeal or the retention of the embargo on arms is the more likely to lead the United States into the war. It is evident that it is impossible for the advocates of either policy to prove their case conclusively. . . . The best that Congress can hope to do now is to adopt that policy which, on a cool estimate of the probabilities as we know them today, seems the least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later on." So wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann last...
...looked as if Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was the biggest paradox of all. Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously...
Good Appetites. The best that could be said for such wholesale butchery was that King and Generals not only feared they would be assassinated themselves at any moment, but faced last week the armies of Soviet Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary, all mobilized along their frontiers with Rumania. Each of these States lost huge slices of territory to Rumania by the peace treaties which wound up World War I, and each was all set to take advantage of any collapse at Bucharest...
...Government had the ace of trumps up its sleeve. When Premier General Nobuyuki Abe assembled a new Cabinet month ago, he reserved the portfolio of foreign affairs for himself "for the time being." Last week he named as Foreign Minister one of the best Japanese friends of the U. S., Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. As a student at Annapolis and as naval attache in Washington, he acquainted himself with U. S. naval strategy and Franklin Roosevelt (when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy). A remarkably huge Japanese-six feet tall and nearly 200 pounds-he lost an eye fighting...
...stocked with stores which despite a surplus of Kay Kayser, manage to keep a pretty satisfying stock on hand. Well-founded rumor has it that an attempt is being made to found a real swing club at Harvard with record concerts and demonstrations by some of the country's best. And then the House Committees always slip up occasionally and get a good band for one of the House dances...