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...assassinate us," suggested that U.S. aviators be permitted to fight with the Chinese Army. ". . . At the controls of some first-class American bombing planes, 50 of them . . . can make a shambles out of Tokyo." Even sympathetic colleagues were abashed at his belligerency. Unsympathetic colleagues saw red. (Isolationist Senator Tobey, picking up a story written by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Thomas L. Stokes, suggested that Senator Pepper had used his office to get part of a defense contract for a Florida asphalt company, thereby precipitating such a rancorous side battle that the Senate finally expunged the debate from the record...
...down holding hearings on them. Said Mark Sullivan of the committee's job: "They voted it down, they locked it up, they turned it down; they squelched it, they suppressed it, they buried it. They buried it in two dif erent forms and in three different ways. . . ." Senator Tobey, one sponsor, dourly said the committee was so thorough it reminded him of the old Yankee who was asked by an undertaker what should be done with the body of an unloved relative. The old Yankee wired back: "Embalm, bury, cremate and freeze - take no chances...
Last week 50 Senators and Representatives, led by Senator Taft, publicly organized a bloc pledged to "unalterable opposition" to U.S. convoys "by whatever name they may be called." In the Senate, when Pennsylvania's Guffey spoke for convoys, Senator Tobey answered him, shaking his fist in the direction of the White House: "Mr. Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Mr. President, Mr. Chief Executive . . . keep your hands off the Congress of the United States!" Senator George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he was opposed to convoys. An Associated Press poll of the Senate showed...
This opinion was enough for one veteran Roosevelt-hater, flashy, pompous Correspondent John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, who wrote a dispatch that certain "Senators" (he meant Mr. Tobey) now knew that the President had permitted the "escorting" of British ships to convoy rendezvous, using the Neutrality Patrol of Navy and Coast Guard boats. Next morning Mr. Roosevelt authorized Secretary Stephen T. Early to announce: "The President . . . thought the author of the story had very cleverly woven the longtime historic policy of the United States into a story which is a deliberate...
...Tobey went on clamoring. If his "proof" was thin, nevertheless convoying was probably the next great decision the U.S. must make. The President, whether he had or had not decided, kept...