Word: radio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, before Congress met, up rose the ancient of the Senate, William Edgar Borah, to thwart the Presidential will. The knife-witted old (74) Lion of Idaho, symbol of romantic Lost Causes, took to the radio to tell the U. S. that repeal of the embargo meant taking sides in Europe, therefore intervention, therefore U. S. involvement...
...radio speech, old Senator Borah served notice that Franklin Roosevelt could expect no Blitzkrieg victory over Congress: "The only matter of difference ... is the sole question of whether we shall sell arms or not sell arms." Quickly Clark and Vandenberg followed this line, insisting it would be unneutral now, with war under way, to revise U. S. law to favor one set of belligerents against another. It was obvious that one serious display of over-caginess on the President's part could ruin his chances of success...
...issue were professional exponents of known views. None owned a fresh voice to bespeak the people's horror of war. But at 10:45 o'clock (E.D.S.T.) one night last week that voice was heard, the voice of the one U. S. citizen who could command a radio audience comparable to Franklin Roosevelt...
Charles Lindbergh last spoke on the radio eight years ago, in Tokyo. Not even the chance to plead for the return of his kidnapped son in 1932 had brought him to a microphone since. The sudden break in his silence was a phenomenon of World War II (which he painstakingly refused to call a World War), an evidence of its great impact upon the U. S. It was also the end of his protective pretense that Charles Lindbergh is just a private citizen. By his act last week Hero Lindbergh deliberately undertook a spokesman's, if not a leader...
...speakers were using a unified language, it was so technical that newshawks tore their hair trying to get plain-talk stories out of the meeting. One reporter sourly observed that the only semblance of unity he saw was a gathering of the delegates around a radio to hear war bulletins...