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Last week the Senate tried its level best to act like a body of Statesmen. Debate on the Lend-Lease Bill, H.R. 1776, opened on a plane so high that many Senators felt a little difficulty in breathing. Crowded galleries, hoping for an old-fashioned quick-&-dirty scrap, with plenty of rabbit punches and hitting in the clinches, were disappointed. The Senate wrapped the toga of dignity and dullness about its collective paunch, and gamely strove for classic words...
...Robert McClure, director of the International Red Cross in China, came back to his Toronto home last December very much upset by this situation. Said he: "For three years I have been digging Canadian scrap iron out of Chinese bodies and I expect someone will soon be digging it out of British bodies, for Japan is now ready to attack Singapore...
...Jameson also had something to say about U. S. ethics. Longshoremen loading Japanese ships had reported that below-decks cargo space was filled with U. S. copper, steel ingots and brass scrap. He told of "millions of brass slugs from slot machines" being transshipped from the U. S. For the so-called U. S. embargo on war materials for Japan is even leakier than the Canadian. Only U. S. bans are on iron and steel scrap, allowing other scrap metals to go through unchecked, and on aviation gasoline, which simply forces Japan to crack unrestricted low-test fuels...
...Sends her all the scrap iron and oil she needs...
...Schoenberg, Dick Thomas, Lee Ackerman, and Dick Davidson were all able to hold out for decisions. Thomas put up the closest fight of the afternoon, yielding only by a referee's decision of 11 to 7. Schoenberg's scrap, which was also very close, represents his first defeat since he lost in the finals of the Easterns last spring...