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...injure the U. S. farmer and cattleman. Last week he got back a restrained but politely savage answer that it was "folly compounded" for farm spokesmen in the light of the Smoot-Hawley tariff experience, "still to cling to the delusion that the farmer has something to gain from embargo or tariffs...
...hrer Adolf Hitler in such a Nazi sanctum sanctorum as the Munich beer hall lent substance to much wishful thinking that Germany was near an internal revolution. In London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said that the Allies were sitting pretty because: 1) the repeal of the U. S. embargo opened to the Allies the "greatest storehouse of supplies in the world"; 2) The British-French pact with Turkey was a "powerful instrument for peace in southeastern Europe"; 3) the German-Soviet pact, while greatly benefiting Soviet Russia, had "brought only humiliation and loss for Germany." The Prime Minister gloated...
...Regrets Embargo Repeal...
Walsh, a Democrat and chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, told an audience of nearly 200: "We should have learned our lesson from the last war." He felt the repeal of the arms embargo was a step toward weakening our traditional neutrality and jeopardized our position in world affairs...
Fresh from the epic struggle over the repeal of the arms embargo, the Hon. David I. Walsh, Massachusetts' senior United States senator, will give a behind-the-scenes account of America's neutrality policy tomorrow evening, according to an announcement by the American Independence League...