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Other Harvard speakers at the school include Abraham H. Feller, visiting lecturer on International Law at the Law School, who speaks this afternoon on the Ludlow Amendment...
Such were the words Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to Speaker William Bankhead, such the words Speaker Bankhead read to the House just before it voted on the Ludlow Resolution, calling for a national referendum before declaring war. The letter served its purpose perfectly. The resolution, brought up at the height of the Panay crisis (TIME, Dec. 27), was sent back to committee, presumably to stay, by a vote...
...Japan in the "Panay" incident? Or can we rely on the Diplomatic Service, as notoriously Anglophile as the intellectuals in the Harvard Government Department? Can we count upon Congress to keep us out of war when we have just seen it bow before the Administration's opposition to the Ludlow Amendment...
When the House of Representatives convenes today, it will begin the discussion of the Ludlow War Referendum Amendment, another in the modern series of peace panaceas. Like so many similar plans, it is totally impractical. Like all attempts to paralyze further American foreign policy, it is potentially harmful to the very cause it wishes to promote. Congress can never legislate peace, and the longer it continues to try, the nearer will be second World...
Representative Ludlow proposes an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting Congress from declaring war, except in case of invasion, until the nation casts a favorable vote in a general referendum. Presumably he expects that the vote would be negative. The masses have never yet demonstrated calmness and clear thinking in the face of jingoistic propaganda, but even if the vote were negative, nothing would be solved. International conditions would change, and in a week another referendum would be necessary. While the nation was busy conducting Mr. Ludlow's weekly referendums, the central government would be paralyzed. As a peace measure...