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AID BILL
BRITAIN
MAY BE
as
ONLY DELAYED
AS THE LAWMAKERS straggle into Washing-
ton, it becomes increasingly clear that in the new SPITFIRE
Congress the isolationist group will prove more vocal than numerous. After incomplete but indicative preliminary canvasses, both Democratic and Re-
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publican leaders agree in predicting the isolationists A NAZI will delay the President's programme by debate, but cannot muster the strength to beat it when voting SQUADRON
time comes.
Indeed, in private talk, more than one isola- tionist chieftain has already conceded the success of the President's "lease-lending" scheme for giving the British war materials, his only specific proposal revealed to date.
con-
A Spitfire pilot, instead of joining his own squa- dron above London, found he had fallen in behind six Messerschmidts and was protecting them from
It
The isolationists' inherent According to report, Marshall's weakness is disclosed by their lunch at the capital was one of astern.
He
his tendency to retreat and re-form the best scenes on record in the
was weaving above their lines on what they regard political farce. Senators McCar-squadron over Scuth-eastern Lon-
safer
Until territory.
last ran, Rush Dew Holt, of West Vir-don when he was sent off to spring, most of them were opposed ginia, and several others assem- identify an enemy formation. to # strong national defence bled to meet the great Marshall. was when he came back to direct
this programme. Then
salient
the remaining Spitfires to the at- proved too exposed, and was aban-
tack that he joined up with the- doned. Until very recently, most!
enemy formation. of them were also opposed to the principle of aid for Britain short of war. Now aid for Bri- fain is receiving varying degrees of lip-service from Henry Ford.
Finally a certain lack of self- Joseph P. Kennedy, Representa- tive Hamilton Fish, Gen. Robert confidence among the less brash Wood.
Senate The Stronghold of
All was amiability and cord at the start. But before lunch was half over Marshall had behaved so oddly a loud row was in progress, and in the end McCarran is said to have walk- ed out in a huff.
when
con-
of the American-First isolationists deserves to be noted.
1939, Committee, and many other isola- In the summer of tionist leaders. There some Senator William E. Borah
is evidence of concerted action in vinced a majority of the Senate this second retreat. But whether there would be no war and refus- concerted or no, it plainly suged to examine State Department Isola- gests the line to be taken by the evidenco to the contrary, Isolationists in Congress.
tionist self-confidence reached the point of arrogance. The sad proof Borah's unwisdom left an after-taste of uncertainty, chiefly The Senate is the stronghold among such middle-of-the-roaders of the Congressional isolationists. as the wise Republican leader, Here Senators Burton K. Wheeler, Charles L. McNary, of Oregon. To of Montana; Bennett Champ those who know the ways of Clark, of Missouri; Gerald P. Congress. it is notable. that Nye, of North Dakota; Edwin official eulogy of Borah was de- Johnson, of Colorado, and Pat livered during the last session. Av McCarran, of Nevada, have one man explained, "It wouldn't already constituted themselves have been timely just then.” an informal steering committee. loosely patterning their procedure on that of the opposition in the court fight. Leadership has again been granted to
Wheeler,
No Popular Support
no
This slight failure of self-con-
a remarkably astute and ruthless fldence is visible in the isolation- legislative strategist. New re-ists' drive for a “negotiated peace," cruits will be added to the the idea for which is laid at the group from time to time, several joint doors of
Senator Wheeler
"When I realised what I was doing," he said "I got a shock, I went in to attack double- quick.
"I fired at one Messerschmidt, which dropped back, and 1 also lost some ground.
"By the time we got to Hastings I had caught the rest of them up again and knocked bits off one. Another was half a mile or more below and behind the others as they crossed the coast.
"He was dropping back rapid-. ly and I was hoping to finish him off when six more Messerschmidt 109s came down at me from over the Channel in fine.
"They circled round me and I went for the one bringing up the
rear.
"He climbed · steeply, but gave him a burst of fire from underneath and he just rolled over and went straight down. "The leader was still worrying me, so I went into a steep turn and lost consciousness. When I recovered, there was no more enemy in sight.”
MISSED AT 6IN. RANGE
of them as soon as Congress is and Joe Kennedy. As any one in session.
who has read Senator Wheeler's From this group, and particu-proposed peace terms must realise,
this drive is straight shadow-box- John Herbert Hughes, 33-year.... ly from Senator Wheeler, have come the bulk of the isolationist ing, primarily intended to. make a old soldier, gave a demonstration record. Other similar gestures are with his rifle in court at Shrop- statements, which have recently
But while the shire Assizes aid was then found made casual headline readers be- to be expected.
isolationists can organise as the "Not guilty" of attempting to shoot lieve the isolationists must have
|court fight opposition They great Congressional power.
organised, with intent to murder a girl in a and shower the country with state- dance hall. seem to have tried, quite
ments as the men who fought the "It is a case of diamond cut sciously and as a matter of strategy court bill did, and empley the sam diamond," said the Judge. "If the to make up in noise, what they
clever, Wheelerish devises, they man really wanted: to shoot the lacked in numbers. Most of them even remained in Washington over pular support which beat
without the po- girl it is dfcult to see how he the could miss, when the girl said the the holidays, with the apparent court bill in the end.
gun was only six inches away." purpose of being always on tap
con-
to make a statement or a speech.
"Step Toward War”
When the lease-lending scheme comes before the Senate, they will, of course, oppose it, but their loudest outeries will be' against "another step toward war” and "weakening our own defence." Some members of the opposition may imitate Ford and Kennedy in indorsing the aid-for-Britaini principle, and the frontal attack on it will be far less important than the side-swiping. Mean- while, the isolationists will wait to rally their greatest force for the fights they think they have a substantial chance of winning-- on such issues as changes in the neutrality act, American solutions. of the British shipping problem, and the like.
in
On the whole, if the President's timing is good and his planning effective, the odds appear to be against the isolationists even the fights they hope to win, For one thing, their support in the country is not always of the most encouraging type. The no- foreign-war committee of the Iowa editor, Verne Marshall, for example, was supposed to be a potent agency of Isolationism, Yet Marshall turned out to be a slightly comie figure, associated with-a-highly unsavory oil specu lator with strong German con- nections, and unlikely to be much help to any one,
cannot, succeed
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of Bandad
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