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Last week undiplomatic Senator William H. Smathers of New Jersey said the delay in passing the Lend-Lease Bill nearly proved that Hitler was right, that "a little band of evil men could gang up to defeat democracy." The chief isolationist, Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, merely chuckled. For his strategic purposes, this irritated attitude was a good sign: consistently through the debate Wheeler and his henchmen have striven to assume the martyr's crown, to be regarded as a tiny group of courageous idealists struggling against hopeless odds. The tactic was working well, because the Administration strategy...
Simultaneously Scripps-Howard news coverage of Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler's isolationist crusade fell into more normal perspective. Senator Wheeler's attack on Wendell Willkie as "the intrepid Trojan horse of the Republican Party"-a likely candidate for the front page a few days earlier-appeared quietly on page 17 of the New York World-Telegram. And word was reputed to have gone down to Publisher Howard's editors to lay off hereafter such features as the identification-tag melodrama...
...letter was sent to Senators Adams, Brewster, Burton, Butler, Bunker, Davis, Downery, Gerry, Furney, Thomas (Okia.), McNary, and Smith...
Isolationist Chief Burton K. Wheeler of Montana harked joyfully back to a Bailey speech of October 10, 1939, when the North Carolinian had said: "We are not going to get into this war. It is a European war. It is not our war. . . . If we were to get into it I should think we were the greatest pack of fools history has ever recorded...
...INDIVIDUAL SCORING Name House Goals Burton (Lowell) 3 White (Dunster) 8 Regan (Dudley) 6 LaCroix (Winthrop) 5 Tilghman (Winthrop) 5 Jenks (Eliot) 4 Lawson (Dudley) 4 Fegeland (Kirkland) 4 McNichol (Adams...