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...Washington there were three schools of thought on the Far Eastern situation: 1) Messrs. Pittman, Schwellenbach, Izac, Coffee, Fish, et al.-proponents of an embargo against Japan; 2) a growing group, underwritten by Secretary Morgenthau and the Export-Import Bank, which favored the roundabout maneuver of giving China a $20,000,000 credit (China had asked for $75,000,000); and 3) a sudden cloud of alarmists, frightened mainly by Columnist Walter Lippmann, who thought the risk of war was growing by the minute, but that the U. S. should hopefully do nothing...
WASHINGTON--Bitter denunciation of Great Britain's seizure of U. S. mails broke out in both houses of Congress today, concurrent with a warning to Germany by Sen. Key Pittman, D., Nev., that the torpedoing of American ships might drive this nation to an "extreme point" short of actual...
...Notably Nevada's Key Pittman...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin immediate consideration of Japanese embargo measures when it meets Wednesday, Chairman Key Pittman, D., Novada, said tonight on his return from Son. William E. Borah's funeral at Boise, Idaho...
Wiring or writing to President Roosevelt, to Senator Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and to individual Congressmen was suggested by the Council as the most effective means of action...