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Stirred by the bombing of the Basques at Guernica. Idaho's eloquent old William Edgar Borah rose in the Senate one day last fortnight to denounce fascism, warn of increasing fascist activity in the U. S. His alarm, it soon appeared, was shared by Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd. In an extraordinary letter sent to Senators Bulkley, Glass and others last March, and given to the press by Senator Glass last week, the Ambassador passed along rumors that several Senators and a man "who owns nearly a billion dollars" were favorably disposed toward a U. S. dictatorship (TIME...
...particular heroes are Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, had inserted his dictator gossip in a long historical screed reviewing instances in which minorities, working through the Supreme Court and otherwise, had frustrated the people's will. First instance he mentioned was the fight of 1919 by which Senator Borah and other Irreconcilables blocked U. S. entry into the League of Nations. Condemning Jefferson's old enemy, Chief Justice John Marshall, as a tool of the interests, Historian Dodd argued that most of the great People's Presidents-Jefferson, Lincoln. Cleveland. Roosevelt I and Wilson-had been frustrated...
William E. Dodd is an able, courageous scholar, but his penchant for drawing lessons from the past has more than once carried him out of diplomatic bounds. Last week Idaho's Borah and other Senate foes of the President's Plan were as furious at his ambassadorial intrusion into 1937's hottest political fight as were Nazis when Ambassador Dodd. in one of his first Berlin speeches, used the careers of the Caesars as his springboard for a two-footed jump on dictatorships...
...economy-minded Senate considered the $571,000,000 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill last week, Idaho's conscientious Borah spotted an item of $1,000 for care of a herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends...
...then and quit for the week. Outside of giving final approval to the Treasury-Post Office Appropriations Bill and providing $5,000,000 for Federal participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, its most newsworthy activity was listening to a speech by Idaho's Borah against fascism...