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...Lease Bill they had argued that the U.S, was quite capable of defending itself alone. Now they argued that going-it-alone did not necessarily include creating a big, well-trained Army, certainly did not include sending arms to Soviet Russia, California's irreconcilable Isolationist, old (74) Senator Hiram Johnson, shouted in a throbbing voice: "I will not subscribe to the doctrine that you must be a Stalinite to be an American. . . . Good God! Did we ever sink so low before as to choose one cutthroat out of two? This man was Hitler's ally. . . . Now we furnish...
California's white-haired Hiram Johnson rose to defend his isolationist colleague: "Every man in this chamber should be proud of you, as I am proud of you today. ... A man is charged with treason. For what? For saying that men in army camps have the right to petition their President. For God's sake, have we reached the point in government where there is no right of ... free speech...
That request of George Marshall's drew no fire from legislators, for regulars swing no political cats. But his other requests produced plenty of fireworks from such lawmakers as Burton Wheeler, Hiram Johnson, Charles McNary. Best guess at week's end was that Congress would wait to hear what the public and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...windswept palace on a hilltop outside Addis Ababa the Emperor received a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, bulky Hiram Blauvelt, and delivered himself of an interview. The Negus said he was grateful to the British for getting him back his throne; that he was grateful to the U.S. for the help sent in his country's time of distress; that he was glad Ethiopia was joining Britain and the U.S. as one of the world's free countries; that he was still a member of the American Museum of Natural History...
...uncomfortable in his striped trousers and cutaway coat, put the Senate through its routine opening paces, the atmosphere was staid and grave. Senators elected and re-elected in November filed up to the rostrum in groups of four to be sworn in, each escorted by his State colleague. Only Hiram Johnson preferred to walk alone...