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Borah stood for the Isolationist "peace bloc" who see only one means to stay out -retention of the embargo. Next night the nation listened to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh (see p. 14) who represented nobody, yet everybody, in a simple monosyllabic address whose refrain was only: "Stay...
Against Borah stood the Administration viewpoint: 1) This is 1939, not 1918; the U. S. embargo on arms to all belligerents gives Adolf Hitler almost the equivalent of an Atlantic fleet, because Great Britain and France can get no arms from the U. S. 2) Britain and France are fighting the fight of democracy against world revolution, are not just engaged in another imperialistic quarrel...
Last week, before Congress met, up rose the ancient of the Senate, William Edgar Borah, to thwart the Presidential will. The knife-witted old (74) Lion of Idaho, symbol of romantic Lost Causes, took to the radio to tell the U. S. that repeal of the embargo meant taking sides in Europe, therefore intervention, therefore U. S. involvement...
These were the men who had gone beyond the turning-back, who had forcefully sworn their belief that repeal of the arms embargo was the first fateful footstep on a one-way road to war. Their votes and influence only two months ago had balked a then-irritable and often angry Franklin Roosevelt as he sought the embargo's repeal. They had forced adjournment without new neutrality legislation. And Borah had been their spokesman, as he quietly insisted in a White House night conference that he knew there would be no war-his sources of information were "better than...
Most significant of all in the political battle to come was the undenied report that South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes would manage the Administration's floor fight for repeal of the embargo. After two years' agonized observation of Senate Leader Alben Barkley's dazed fumbling with New Deal legislation, Franklin Roosevelt was apparently turning to the slickest, most persuasive man in the Senate for leadership to combat an isolationist filibuster...