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Recognizing the first faint gleam of Allied victories as their golden opportunity, isolationists in Congress are eagerly preparing for an all-out fight over post-war policy. They remain undaunted by the results of their stand up till now. Although still tenderly nursing wounds from last December 7, already they have met the opposition in one skirmish--the fight over the Panama Lands Bill...
...lands in Panama to the Panamanian Government and would carry out other provisions accepted by the State Department. Outwardly, it is quite harmless. But isolationists recognized in it the offings of a precedent. Shrewdly they saw the first of what might become a series of legislative acts fostering post-war economic collaboration. Shrewdly, too, they saw that their position stands in danger if these agreements are presented to Congress as legislative acts, requiring only majority vote. Their power of hamstringing progressive policy would be much more effective if such agreements were presented as treaties, requiring a two-thirds vote...
Immediately moderate isolationists, including Taft and Vandenberg, as well as the old diehards, Johnson and Nye, flocked to their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...
...recognize, of course, that power must be the basis of any realistic post-war settlement, but we do not believe that, alone, a pooling of power by Great Britain and the United States can ensure a lasting peace. We are afraid that in our "news-paper democracy" and increasingly obstructionist Congress will not allow passage of such half-way international measures as those offered by Kohn, Buell, and Wild, unless the internationalists ask for a lot more...
This is not to say that we believe a world federation or anything like it can be established during the immediate post-war period. But we feel very strongly that the moderate minimum proposed by Professors Wild, Kohn, and Buell should be made strategically at the last moment, not weakly in advance. Wilson kept his aims but in the crucial Senate battle, failed to compromise; if we limit our demands now, we shall find ourselves unable to make the compromise which unfortunately will be required. The peace after this war must not be lost because of careless tactics...