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Lifted Voices. Less than crystal clear was the President's proposal, which was supported by ex-President Hoover. It was no secret that Finland needed arms more than food, money more than arms. The vague reference to loans in South America frightened some who might otherwise have approved of aid to the Finns. But if the President's proposal lacked clarity, the Senators' discussion lacked that and a good deal more. What worried Senators was not aid to Finland. It was: should the President's letter be referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency...
...traditions of the Lone Star State, Senator Tom Connally, plumping for Foreign Relations, denied vehemently and at length that his choice was motivated by pride, of which nobody accused him, made it clear at the conclusion of his talk that nobody could accuse him of wanting to aid Finland either. Senator George of Georgia talked just as long in the same cause, proclaiming his inability to tell the difference between sending money to Finland and sending a battleship. Vainly Administration Leader Barkley insisted that there was no violation of U. S. neutrality in the President's suggestion, reminded Senators...
...Long before the debate was over, disgusted observers wondered who really needed aid. Between the tweedledee Committee on Banking and Currency, and the tweedledum Committee on Foreign Relations, the Senate wavered in such agony as to make the resistance of Finland seem even more heroic than it had seemed before. Statesmanlike solution of Senator McNary of Oregon was gratefully accepted. His proposal: send the letter to both committees. That meant more delay. As the Committee on Banking and Currency prepared to hear Secretary of State Hull's opinion, and as Senator Brown prepared to revise his bill with Administration...
Reaction. So it appeared to staggered Finns that they would get no help from the U. S. Outside the Senate, U. S. relief for Finland went forward: the Finnish Relief Fund raised its first $1,000,000; Herbert Hoover rounded up a committee of industrialists, got them to pledge $1,000,000 more. The National Labor Organizations Division of Finnish Relief, hampered in its formative stages by the delicate problem of Communists in the labor movement, at last got organized...
...more sharply than at any time since the war began, the Senate's action posed the dilemma of extreme isolationists. Against the vague fear that at some future time a loan to Finland might lead to credits that might lead to war, there loomed another possibility-that a Russian victory in Finland would lead to an attack on Sweden, to an eventual German-Russian revolutionary dominance of Scandinavia that would crush four of the world's democratic governments and so form a combination that no European power could resist. But such possibilities were not discussed in the Senate...