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...little to explode the crying need for convoys to protect our aid. (I am aware that the attitude expressed in the editorial had not yet arrived at accepting convoys.) Rear Admiral Emery S. Land, chairman of the United-States Maritime Commission, stated the following in a letter to Senator Vandenberg: of all the vessels sunk between January 1 and April 30 only 12 of 66,782 gross tons cleared from United States ports; of these 12 only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below 40 per cent. He based his information "according to our composite records...
...solvency of the U. S. The President still believes in spending Government money as if it were water" (Senator Robert Taft, Ohio); "... A minimum of what we ought to do . . ." (Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky); "My digestion is not good enough to take it down at one gulp" (Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan); "I'm for adequate national defense, if it takes our shirt" (Senator Tom Connally, Texas); "... a trick budget . . . juggling of figures . . . what we need today is to curtail drastically non-defense spending . . ." (Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia...
...exception of John L. Lewis, are people who have fought the social reforms of the past eight years. They are such champions of labor as Henry Ford and Robert Wood, such defenders of civil liberties as Ham Fish and Father Coughlin, such tribunes of the people as Taft and Vandenberg, such bulwarks of our freedom as the Hearst press, all bound together by the awful fear that war will serve as an excuse for the further extension of governmental control over business. These are people who are paying for the anti-English drive, not because they care a damn about...
...befuddled. He told reporters that President Roosevelt could bring about a "just peace" in Europe if he were willing, that the President could force Hitler into peace by threatening to enter the war on the British side if the peace terms weren't "reasonable." Senators Tydings of Maryland, Vandenberg of Michigan, McCarran of Nevada, Holt of West Virginia, Johnson of Colorado all chorused this sentiment, with bass and tenor variations. Next morning the New York Times demanded to know what they meant by "a just peace": just to whom? To The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Poland, France, CzechoSlovakia? Walter...
...balding, 45-year-old Detroit lawyer named John Francis James FitzGerald shocked himself, Michigan and Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg by creeping up on that supposedly impregnable incumbent in late returns...