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...Senator Borah oi Idaho, of course, orated before crowded galleries ; suggested that the U. S. keep the marines in Nicaragua only long enough to supervise an election, which President Diaz should authorize, to elect a new President. Mr. Borah wound up with stirring generalizations: "Inaugurate a campaign of peace . . . get in touch with the masses...
...Senator Borah, of Idaho, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, likes to be a severe critic as well as a maker of U. S. foreign policy. On most afternoons at 3 p.m., he holds an informal chat with the gentlemen of the press. Interjecting a little profanity and rustling the disordered documents on his desk, he discusses anything from murder trials to Nicaragua. Fortnight ago, he was vituperative concerning U. S. intervention in Nicaragua. Early last week, he was secretively dramatic, said: "I think it is well recognized that the Nicaraguan revolution is being instigated by certain persons...
...days later, after a conference with Secretary Kellogg, Senator Borah was calm and satisfied that the U. S. had sent Marines to Nicaragua only to protect its citizens. Cautiously, he added: "We should be vigilant against being tricked into intervention." What will be the next state of mind of the man from Idaho, no one knows...
...Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, William Edgar Borah, growled that the Administration seems to be looking for grounds on which to commence "a shameless, cowardly little war with Mexico...
Sherlock Holmes appeared, looking for the Party that lost the last election. There was a drama called "Under the Slippery Elms (of Vermont)" wherein "Pa" Butler and "Ma" Stearns were raising the Third-Term Baby. They had many farmhands and chore-boys?Calvin, Borah, Dawes, Lowden, Longworth...