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Idaho, home of Isolationist Senator Borah, backed his judgment and viewed with alarm the direction in which events were drifting. To some young Idahoans, the prospect of war seemed adventurous. ("Look at the fun Dad had in the World War.") Others talked of heading for the hills with a pack horse...
...appears exceedingly glum for all hide-bound isolationists. Although a majority of the students are averse to wars, particularly foreign conflicts; they seem quite willing to aid in stopping Hitler. In a word, youth seems ready to take another stabat saving Democracy despite the warnings of Senators Nye and Borah. The shop-worn argument of "splendid isolation" will have to be put on the shelf for some years to come...
...since the court-packing bombshell of 1937 has there been in Washington an explosion comparable to that threatened today. Around the issue of foreign policy, posed by the two snarling, but temporarily caged, European wildcats, battle line are forming; and soon Messrs. Nye, Borah, and Clark are sure to declare war. When that happens, there will be a hot time in at least one old American town...
Idaho's ursine Borah, still weak from flu, denounced the air bill as dictated by "bluff and jitterism." His new junior colleague, pretty David Worth Clark, 36, made a maiden speech telling the U. S. to mind its own business. Minnesota's heavy Lundeen talked darkly of Presidential secrets which would "stun" and "shock" the country if revealed. California's white-crowned Hiram Johnson, North Dakota...
Lawyer Stanfield appealed to Federal District Judge Wayne G. Borah (the Idaho Senator's nephew), who ruled against Joe; then to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Here Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. found that there was nothing in the Labor Department's record against Joe to warrant deporting him. Judge Hutcheson spoke of "the tyranny of labels over certain types of minds" and twitted the prosecution (inferentially, Madam Secretary Perkins herself) for "a kind of Pecksniffian righteousness, savoring strongly of hypocrisy and party bigotry...