Senator Borah—We found onl during the carly days of the world war that someone aside from Mr. Dupont was interested in economic condi tions, The farmers of the country, the producers of the county, the tal erg of the country were here in Washington, "and they were not huckslers, ' whey were American Citizens and they theasat thor ne certain rights; and I think they had.
Every sane man or woman must against war and in favour of peace, But this Is @ realist world and while we want peace and talk of pence and hope for peace, we build huge navies because we know that in this world of ours we cannot disregard the conditions which sttrround us.
We know that no nation ever found security or economic "justice through surrendering its just and essential rights, Therefore there are sone things which the Senator would ight for and some things that we all would fight for. We are not going to surrender our essential national rights. The people would not let us thought for longer than about 60 days after the war staried.
We thought Germany represented civilization which was in conflict with our civilization, We thought Germany represented a system which was at war with our system; and as the war went on we became con-vineed that it was a fight for the preservation of civilization. Whether rightly or wrongly we rapidly reached the conclusion that two philosophies of life were Mghting for supremacy.
If matters had gotten to the point where the allies were being defeated the United States would have gone into the war in what we would have called self-defence, regardless of any, question of dollars or cents or of Why is it unit Great Britain has maintained her powerful foreign rude? It is because when ther trade interfered with the British navy moves to the point of the globe where the interference occurs.
Senator Bone.—t cannot bring my self to believe that Britain's control f the scalaness has contributed 1 ly to the welfare of the average Briton, T doubt if there is any country in Europe where poverty is more dismal than in Great Britain.
Senator Borah.—Where would Britain have been if she had' not dune as T have stated? There would not be any Great Britain, roled "No" on Neutrality. Witt Senator Borah wag one only who, voled aguinst the fund carry" neutrality policy. Earl im his speech he had protested that by Insisting upon cash payments. for exports and use of belligerent oF neutral ships for certain specified exports the United States was entering Into an alliance with" Great Britain, This fs a British bil!" complained Senator Johnson, another of the. six_irreconcilables: "and not a single Senator rose to his feet. protest ayainst this and assert that was nothing of the kind. The 72 Senators who voted for the bill did "not seem to care very really that it would in effect ponent Great Britain at the expense of her enemies whose financial position was not whose navies were not x0. powerful The neutrality bill was aceepte with this near unanimity, because It slipped neatly elween the two. extremes of unrestricted wartime trade. Had there not been such an over whelming interest inthe American Constitutional crisis created by the President's proposals to secure Supreme Court favourable to. New Deal legislation more criticism would have been heard from both these extremes, specially from the ad-vocales of "Ereedom of the Seas:
Bul as Senator Johnson remarked. "We are in no mood to dear with 2 subject, of such great" importance. There is another question before us. here is thinking of that. is Med with it, and of course it should be, because it is a important "subject. It is ise for us to deal with this measure when we are not prepared."
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