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...Arranged for the state funeral of Idaho's Borah (see below), adjourned in sorrow to await...
...Bryan and 16-to-1 Silver in 1896, striding back unchastened to the Republican Party in 1900. He was a theatrical, compelling, blackmaned orator, bewitching the people into making the Legislature send him to the U. S. Senate in 1907. Thereafter, until he died last week, he was Borah of Idaho...
Last week the Capitol Plaza in Washington was white with snow. Through the windows of Suite 139 in the Senate Office Building, the trees a-nod with ice beckoned William Edgar Borah to his customary walk in the Plaza park. But first, he had a little work...
...blue shawl, two white pillows and an Army blanket (which he sometimes wore like a toga on cold afternoons in the park) ; on the wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted to memorize. Thus read, it would join his vast store from the Bible, Shakespeare, Britain's Burke and Fox and Pitt, Massachusetts...
Beneath the outwardly smooth course of Anglo-American relations there runs a current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights...