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...leniency toward Debtor Europe. President Hoover was informed by long-eared Senator Reed of Pennsylvania: "I've not found a single member of Congress who will vote for a suspension of debt payment. The proposal is dead." Debt revision produced a deafening Capitol chorus. Idaho's Borah: "I'm opposed." Oregon's McNary: "I'm against." Mississippi's Harrison, Tennessee's McKellar, Georgia's George (in close harmony) : "We're opposed." Wisconsin's La Follette (solo) : "I'm not for." Democratic House Leaders Rainey, Collier and Byrns...
Amid much political jubilation on both sides of the border the U. S. and Canada last July signed a treaty to construct a $543,000,000 seaway along the St. Lawrence River connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic (TIME, July 25). Last week Senator Borah and his Foreign Relations colleagues sat down to hear what was wrong with this pact. In five days, opponents of its ratification piled up such a mountain of objections that even its friends admitted it had little chance to get through the coming short session...
...Defeat of Utah's Smoot leaves Idaho's Borah, with 26 years' continuous service to his credit, as the Senate's dean...
...Roosevelt. Simultaneously with his invitation there appeared the report of the Sloan Committee, advocating another postponement and a reconsideration of the 1929 funding agreement. To these moves Congressional leaders have made only a negative response, standing pat against either reduction or moratorium. Their stubbornness is softened only by Borah's offer to trade debt reduction for disarmament. Whether this unyielding position will be endorsed when congress assembles in December is not predicable. One can predict a major diaster, however, if the nation's representatives finally refuse to give over their stupidity...
With Disarmament a boiling issue, Senator Borah, powerful chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, fortnight ago gave North American Newspaper Alliance his views on Germany's demand for arms equality with the rest of Europe. Excerpts: "Germany's demand for equality is natural, essentially and fundamentally just. The plea for the sanctity of treaties is sound but it should and must include all parties. The Versailles Treaty has not been observed with reference to Disarmament by the governments which dictated its terms. . . . Technically to observe the terms of a treaty while violating it in spirit and moral...