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...maybe just a dash of bitters. Last week rancorous, cantankerous Mr. Tobey was out front again for his first real headlines since his passion for picayune causes led him to denounce the U.S. Census last year as regimentation. Three weeks ago his sensitive neb caught the scent of convoys. Quick as a mink he came out with an anti-convoy resolution. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee quietly interred the resolution in a pigeonhole. Last week his suspicions that the President planned to convoy had passed into certainty. He decided that the President had already secretly ordered convoys...
...your editorial of April 23 on the Peace Strike you state that "any person desiring peace for the United States must be forced to express opposition to the use of the armed forces of the United States to convoy ships to Britain." There are many of us who desire peace for the United States but are convinced that peace for this counry is in the long run impossible if British resistance to Hitler is broken by the submarine blockade. We are therefore convinced that refusal to convoy is not a means of avoiding war but rather of postponing war until...
...spade a spade. He has been just one card ahead of the public since last June, and with phenomenal success has directed opinion into planned channels. This is his right as President, but to employ the methods of unfounded alarm and misnomer, as he is now doing on the convoy issue, is both hypocritical and dishonest...
...final move will be calmly to suggest that Congress admit the accomplished fact, pass a convoy bill, and the President will have won another hand of clever, if undercover, political poker...
...sponsors and speakers of some of the bitterest and most complete of Harvard isolationists, it has been advertised that the meeting this morning is to be conducted not as a protest against any form of aid to England but rather as a fight against the imminent adoption of convoy service by the U. S. Navy, a move which would be certain to drag this country into the war. With this aim any person desiring peace for the United States must be forced to agree...