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...Borah (faltering)-Well, I think it might not be proper; I think there was a condition there, existing prior to that time, which needed consideration. . . . I would change the Polish Corridor if it was [sic] possible to do so; and I would change the situation with reference to Upper Silesia if I could...
...Borah-I would, yes. . . . I think the time is past for moratoriums. . . . We have reached the time when if we are going to relieve the economic situation we shall have to cut, instead of push [debt payments] back a year or two and destroy the credit of every nation against whom it stands. . . . I think we are economically affected by the situation in Europe, and I think we shall have to be interested...
...Borah-No. . . . I certainly see a distinct difference. . . . From George Washington's Farewell Address down that has been the teaching of the American people...
That evening all the politicos of Europe wanted to know one thing: Where did Mr. Borah get his brand new explosive opinions? U. S. politicos were not so much at a loss. They understood that the Senator was raised with nine brothers and sisters on an Illinois farm. They knew how-to get away from it all-he studied law and fled to bad Boise in woolly Idaho. In the years since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge, they have beheld how Borah's tongue has grown golden, how he has leaned out and blossomed as Chairman...
...partisan experts have said for years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally or not Mr. Borah had stolen the show of Laval's visit...