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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a subdued President Roosevelt gave reporters a measured and cautious account of his measured and cautious action. On Monday, said he, "there was reason to become alarmed at the possibility of extension of warfare into the Baltic." Next day the Ambassadors of Finland, Sweden and Denmark called at the White House. Wednesday morning the President wrote a note (addressed to President Kalinin of Russia, but intended for Dictator Stalin), left it on his desk for Secretary Cordell Hull to read when he returned from New York at 2 p. m. The Secretary suggested several changes, the note...
Reality. Early this week they and the U. S. got a conclusive tip-off that the Isolationist cause in the Great Debate was now becoming more & more a desperate attempt to stall off inevitable defeat. Michigan's Vandenberg said he was drafting a version of the Hoover-Lindbergh plan as a substitute for the arms embargo if the embargo were beaten. But Pittman was now anxious to shut off futile chitchat, limit debate, get on to perfecting and passing the bill. To this end Pittman moved to speed the legislation by scrapping the controversial go-day credit provision, substituting...
...Said Admiral Land, through his Senatorial mouthpiece: If the proposed neutrality bill became law, of 326 U. S. ships (2,150,000 gross tons), 130 (860,000 gross tons) would be forced to rot in harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered, 22 of them launched) to go. Annual gross revenues of $73,000,000 would be seriously impaired. About 9,000 seamen would become jobless. Such vital U. S. imports as tin, rubber, manganese, chromium, would be curtailed...
Withdrawing the word "racket" on a point of order, Mr. Woodrum said that the Fish organization-the National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars-with headquarters in Fish's office, using Government facilities and employes, had been sending out appeals for campaign funds on official stationery. The funds were to offset what the Fish committee called "the New Deal war-hysteria campaign" and "to expose these efforts to involve...
...Said Mr. Woodrum: "I have never heard of such a colossal propaganda undertaking in the 16 years I have been a member. We have condemned the utilities, we have condemned Dr. Townsend; but at least they had to have offices downtown. They had to employ secretaries. They had to buy typewriters and, at least, they did not set up their committees under the dome of the Capitol...