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...radio speech, old Senator Borah served notice that Franklin Roosevelt could expect no Blitzkrieg victory over Congress: "The only matter of difference ... is the sole question of whether we shall sell arms or not sell arms." Quickly Clark and Vandenberg followed this line, insisting it would be unneutral now, with war under way, to revise U. S. law to favor one set of belligerents against another. It was obvious that one serious display of over-caginess on the President's part could ruin his chances of success...
...strength of the Borah men lay in their power to rouse and rally emotional opinion. Yet such good Republicans as Frank Knox, Alf M. Landon (both of whom this week were called to the White House), Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, were all for embargo repeal. Editorially, the U. S. press was almost unanimous behind him. Out of Washington came the reminiscent cry "a little block of willful...
...oratorical fugue about to start in the Capitol, never had there been a more unanimously attentive audience. The man who will play the counterpoint in that fugue, his eyebrows now white with time, sat brooding in his hideaway, now and then napping on a creaking old black-leather couch. Borah was ready for the fight of his life. The odds were against him but no man could yet say that he had lost...
...Senator Borah never "filibusters," hates the term and practice. This has not prevented him from talking extensively, day after day, on the same subject, if he saw fit. To kill time, filibusterers read cookbooks, tracts into the Congressional Record...
Last week began the Great Debate on U. S. Neutrality. Franklin Roosevelt argued for action, short of war (see p. 11), Idaho's Borah for Isolation (see p. 12), Elder Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson for traditional neutrality. These and many another who joined issue were professional exponents of known views. None owned a fresh voice to bespeak the people's horror of war. But at 10:45 o'clock (E.D.S.T.) one night last week that voice was heard, the voice of the one U. S. citizen who could command a radio audience comparable to Franklin Roosevelt...