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...Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whom I helped to elect, makes myself and a hell of a lot of other Mountain citizens sick with his anti-Roosevelt policies. I think that he should receive the same punishment that I would have received had I divulged vital military secrets to the entire world. I would also like to state that most of us Mountain boys are not afraid of Herr Hitler or anything he represents, and just as soon as President Roosevelt gives us the green light, we will...
...Admiral George Pettengill, commandant of the Washington naval yard, had tried to keep him out after the lad declared he shared his father's views on war. The case was carried to Knox, who ruled the Admiral out of order, put Son Richard into uniform, apologized to Father Burton...
...foreign policy: 1) the U.S. can probably lick the Japanese; 2) this would be a Navy job primarily, and the U.S. is prouder and surer of its powerful Navy than of its half-equipped Army; 3) many isolationists are rabidly anti-Japanese. Even Montana's acidulous, 100% critic Burton K. Wheeler said: "I think the President did the right thing. You may say for me that I agree with him-for the first time...
...read it. boiled over, then sent the card with a letter to General George C. Marshall, an old friend. What caused Sergeant White to boil over was the card's message: "Write today to President Roosevelt . . . that you are against our entry into the European war. (Signed) Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...have never been so pleased over anything in my life. . . . The BBC is anathema to me. . . . There are Americans who still think English people are Bertie Woosters calling each other 'Milord' and I thought the Wodehouse broadcasts would be very helpful to people like Burton Wheeler...