Nevada, attempted to defend the Administration's foreign policy, but his remarks were brushed aside by Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican of California, as the heated debate continued.
"I asked yesterday," Senator Johnson said in a voice shaking with anger, "and I ask again to-day—what is our foreign policy?" He assailed the Brussels Nine-Power Conference of last year at which attempts to settle the Sino-Japanese war were unsuccessful.
The Brussels Conference, Senator Johnson declared, placed the United States in a position of "threatening other nations and then failing to carry out the threats."
"What does the President mean when he says outlaw nations should be quarantined?" Senator Johnson asked in referring to President Roose-vel's Chicago address on foreign policy last year. "It can mean only one thing—that we quarantine nations that do wrong."
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