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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressman Jerry Voorhis of San Dimas, Calif., a little Leftist, was placed on the Dies committee last February to counterbalance its Red-hunting chairman. Jerry Voorhis soon was more appalled by his new view of U. S. Communists and Nazis than by the antics of Martin Dies. Having come to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Dies Committeeman Noah Mason of Illinois proposed to have them all fired if they did not quit the League forthwith. "It is too bad," said he, recognizing that some innocents are bound to be hurt. Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman introduced a bill to bar from Federal pay rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

When a belligerent seizes a neutral ship, it usually runs the neutral into its own port, seizes its contraband cargo, and if more than 50% is contraband, condemns the ship. The neutral protests with as much vehemence as is compatible with the strength of its case. It may try to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Procedure. Russia's position was beginning to look embarrassing. Plain fact was that, as soon as City of Flint sailed under the German flag, it risked capture by British warships, faced at the minimum a 1,300-mile voyage through blockaded waters, at least 50 miles of known mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

On the record, if nothing happened to the U. S. crew during the voyage of City of Flint to Germany, Russian diplomacy looked like a tricky sequence of twists, evasions, contradictions. Nobody needed to point out the main consequence: if anything happened to the 41 U. S. sailors, Russia'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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