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...House of Representatives this week came at last the Pittman Neutrality Bill. With it came hordes of newsmen, shoals of tourists, and Franklin Roosevelt's hopes of quick enactment and adjournment. House leaders maneuvered the Neutrality Bill to the floor under technical safeguards that guaranteed swift action. Only a major upset now could plant new barriers in the path of U. S. aid to the Allies - and no upset was expected...
...signs that President Roosevelt gave last week, he might not have known that the Senate was still engrossed in its Great Debate. Neither oblivious nor negligent, Mr. Roosevelt was simply complying with the admonition laid down by his Senate strategists, Key Pittman and Jimmy Byrnes: "Stay out of the Neutrality fight." By staying out, he exhibited a restraint remarkable for him, regrettable for Senate Isolationists, who would welcome nothing more than a rousing White House scare to scare off Administration votes...
...voice protested at first, when the Pittman neutrality bill proposed to shackle U. S. citizens with 3,500 words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...
Last week Bailey (Commerce Committee chairman), Pittman and other Senate shipping buffs got together, unlaced the jacket. The U. S. merchant marine was to have been confined to the Western Hemisphere; under the new amendment U. S. ships may carry nonwar supplies 1) to all ports in the Western Hemisphere south of 30° north latitude; 2) to any port in the Pacific or Indian Oceans, including the China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. The President is granted discretion to declare out of bounds all North Atlantic shipping routes (including that to Canada via the Gulf...
...Fence. This shipping compromise was Horse Trader Pittman's second gift horse of the week. Gift Horse I was the abandonment of the 90-day credit clause for a policy of strict cash-on-the-barrelhead. Sly Mr. Pittman had timed his offerings nicely: wavering Senators popped off the fence in jigtime. Fence-perched Gillette of Iowa went over to the Administration side; so did Kentucky's new Junior Senator Chandler and Illinois' Lucas...