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...debate in Congress over the Neutrality bill had been an opaque mess to Vag. Each side seemed right, and yet they disagreed bitterly. Who dared to doubt the sincerity of the Lion of Idaho, Senator Borah; or the high-mindedness of the President, who surely knew that his place in history was secure if he succeeded in keeping the U. S. out of war? Vag even began to wonder if this were not just a great sham battle, masking the intrigues of powerful men behind the scenes...
...Senate's oratorical display was not enough to keep the galleries from emptying. After Idaho's Borah and Nevada's Pittman had fired the opening rockets against and for repeal of the arms embargo, the rest of the show was anticlimactic. Two days later bulbous Tom Connally of Texas, his wavy grey locks disheveled, roared for repeal for two hours and 45 minutes. For two hours and three minutes Michigan's Vandenberg played hard for his stake in 1940 (TIME...
...full view of the French. On the Rhine they stood with German officers in full view of poilus on the other side fishing, sawing wood, washing clothes. They heard stories and saw signs of badinage between the lines. Net effect of what they wrote was to underscore Senator Borah's amazing crack about World War II being "phoney...
...little, has been so welcome in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Washington as shipbuilding. None has sucked so well at the public tit. But last week shipbuilding was threatened with political orphanage. For the sea-loving President and his Neutrality Senators appeared to be compromising with land-loving William Borah and his Neutrality Senators on Cash-&-Carry. This would force Europe's belligerents to come and get whatever Congress will let them buy-in their own ships. And this, in turn, would obsolete the up-&-coming U. S. Maritime Commission and its program of rebuilding the merchant marine...
...hard for him to decide intelligently when the experts disagree. When doctors fall out, who shall decide the patient's fate? Senator Borah seems to argue just as convincingly as the President. Hearing both sides over again only seems to confuse him. Yet for his own peace of mind, he must come upon some positive opinion...