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...authorizing an increase in the Export-Import Bank's loan capital of $100,000,000, and making possible an additional $20,000,000 credit to Finland. The bill was favorably reported by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, had the approval even of such isolationists as Senators Vandenberg and Hiram Johnson, seemed destined to pass. Debatable was the bill's practical or potential value to the Finns. The money would have to be spent in the U. S., and for non-military products. And final sanctioning of the credit would be up to hard-headed Jesse Jones...
...strict isolationist, Senator Vandenberg helped lead the Senate opposition last October to repeal of the arms embargo...
...Vandenberg resolution, Lippmann pointed out: 1) imposed a serious threat (of embargo) on Japan; 2) proposed collective action with Great Britain, France, Italy, China, The Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal against Japan in the Pacific, "at the very moment when Senator Vandenberg was telling the people here that it made no vital difference to them if the Allies were defeated in Europe"; 3) put the U. S. in the position of recklessly challenging a great power...
...Senator Vandenberg politely demurred, handed over the entire credit for U. S. Far Eastern policy to the Administration...
Illinois' Bosses Kelly & Nash filed Franklin D. Roosevelt as a candidate in the April 9 primary. He has until Feb. 24 to disavow the filing. Thomas E. Dewey entered Illinois' Republican primary, where a sweeping victory would give any candidate top billing. Bob Taft was undecided. Arthur Vandenberg declined...