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...sponsors nor the Committee's Chairman could explain to their colleagues exactly what the farm bill's 97 pages were all about. High point of futility in the week's debate was reached in an exchange between "Cotton Ed" Smith and Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg. To a Vandenberg inquiry as to how much it would cost the Government to pay farmers the benefits proposed by the bill, and where the money was to come from, Senator Smith replied that "an effort to benefit agriculture ought not to be arbitrarily limited...
...Vandenberg: "That is a very noble sentiment to which I might subscribe. I should also say that a member of the Senate can scarcely vote intelligently upon this bill when he does not know what he is authorizing except 'such sums as are necessary.' As are necessary for what? . . . What sums are necessary? Is it a billion or two billion dollars...
...Vandenberg: "No, I do not and I am trying to find...
...with headline peace material were such names as New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee. Getting in his political oar, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg declared. "It is none of our business, as neutrals, what the effect of our neutrality will be upon anybody but ourselves...
Lifting chunks from the Vandenberg and Butler speeches the V. F. W. adopted an anti-war resolution, calling for mandatory neutrality, withdrawal of U. S. armed forces from foreign soil. The Veterans also requested President Roosevelt to make public his intentions on the Administration's Far Eastern policy. Just before the convention closed General Butler again took the rostrum, and amid cheers and whistles read a "reply" from the President congratulating them on all their demands, saying: "Other countries must make their damned war without our help." When he finished the General looked up, saying...