Word: borah
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale faculty ballot on the League of Nations Covenant yesterday resulted as follows: For ratification with mild reservations, 41; ratification with no reservations, 23; ratification with strong reservations, 11; ratification with full Lodge reservations, 4; for the Borah position, none...
Some time ago, before the Treaty had been done to death, a wise man said that the only place where it was safe to be a rabid pro-German in this country was in the United States Senate. Senator Borah, with his horrid fears that poor Germany was going to be crushed; Senator Reed, who was elected by the Germans of St. Louis; Senator Johnson, who apparently preferred, as long as the dear Germans could not keep Shantung, to do anything rather than let the "despicable Japanese" have what was promised them--all of them played into Germany's hands...
...striking similarity between the arguments of the Germans and those of the Johnson-Borah-Reed group does not need to be pointed out. Those of the first are frankly German; those of the worthy Senators, according to their own valuation, are "one hundred per cent. American." But it only takes two per cent, perspicacity to see that the latter are just as German as the former--whether through ignorance or malice, it is hard to tell...
...statement was called forth by the severe condemnation by Senator Borah of President Lowell's remarks on Washington's farewell address and on the policies of the founders of the Union. The senator failed to find a "single patriotic paragraph or a single appeal for American institutions or the American systemic of government" in all the literature distributed by the League to Enforce Peace...
...Senator Borah, speaking of President Lowell, said...