Senator Pittman introduced his credit amendment to the neutrality bill as Senator D. Worth Clark, Democrat of Idaho, delivered one of the most slashing attacks on Britain ever heard in the United States Senate in peace time.
"The British Empire," he declared, "was built on two things—blood and treachery. The British word and honour is worth no more than Hitler's." He termed Britain "the most outstanding example of aggression the world has ever known.'
"It ill behooves England and France," he said, "now to refuse at least to treat for peace."
Senator Bennett Champ Clark, isolationist Democrat of Missouri, later offered an amendment prohibiting loans to nations in default in debt payments to the United States from refunding their debts in the United States.
Senator Allen J. Ellender, Demo-
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