Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those 14 months were left. War seemed no nearer than it had a year ago, but it was still near enough, and popular determination to stay out of it was firmer than ever. Up for debate in the Senate came a bill, introduced by Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman of Nevada, to make present safeguards permanent. To keep U. S. ships from being sunk, U. S.-owned goods from being seized or destroyed, Senator Pittman further proposed to put all wartime trade with belligerents on a cash & carry basis. As soon as the President proclaimed the existence of a foreign...
...Senate's two most famed isolationists, Borah of Idaho and Johnson of California, both veterans of the League fight of 1919. For those oldsters, isolation means that the U. S. shall not only mind its own business, but shall also stand up for its rights. To them, the Pittman proposal seemed a craven yielding up of the great right of freedom of the seas, for which the nation had stood through all its history. Furthermore, they declaimed, it would not bring peace, but war. Since only two nations have navies big enough to do a cash & carry business with...
There has been much carping criticism of the new bill attacks hurled at it on the grounds that the measure is dangerously supercharged. Senator Johnson, the only member of the Foreign Relations Committee who objected to the Pittman Resolution, described the plan as a "shotgun measure to keep us out of war, and it won't do anything of the sort. It would take us into war rather than keep us out." Opponents of the bill have in mind the narrow range of discretion which the President is allowed and the possible repercussions which might result from a vigorous application...
...Pittman Resolution doubtless is a twoedged weapon, but it is folly to seek a one-edgged neutrality. Neutrality will always be regarded by injured belligerents as unfair and menacing. If we are to have teeth, we must always run the risk of biting our own tongues. On the whole, the Resolution should find its way to the Congressional Record without very much opposition. The "Peace Act of 1937" deserves to become a reality...
...yapping whenever its long commercial toes are tread upon. The new neutrality proposal is so positive and direct in its method that it practically bares its fangs and curls its lips to maintain peace in face of a foreign war, In the plain words of its author, Senator Pittman, the bill does "not attempt to construe, determine, or deal with the controversial and mythical question of so-called neutrality...