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...July 7. "Call in the Members," intoned Speaker James W. Glen. Division bells clanged through the marble-floored corridors of Canada's House of Parliament. Each M.P., conscious of an historic occasion concluding one of the bitterest debates in Canadian history, rose to record himself yea or nay. The Government was sustained...
...Navy that is mainly air force with seagoing auxiliaries -will have the major say in world affairs. Then the U.S. will no longer be the nation of the county fair and the little red schoolhouse. It will be the nation that has the power by yea or nay to open the seas and widen economic frontiers to all peaceful peoples, to close them as readily to aggressors...
...roll call began; 45 minutes of grinding suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...
...Nay voters, 23 were confirmed Isolationists who had also voted against the Lend-Lease Bill and against nearly every Roosevelt-sponsored measure relating to foreign policy. Against the Lend-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...
...there was no such debate, no such delay. Pennsylvania's Charles Faddis down-with-Japanned; Representatives who had fought improvements for Guam two years ago now paid their respects to the "contemptible, squint-eyed sons of the Rising Sun." The authorization went through by acclamation, with one lone Nay registered against it: the methodical, dutiful Nay of New York's left-wing Vito Marcantonio, who has voted against almost every bill for U. S. defense...