Mr. Sam Rayburn, Democratic Representative of Texas, was one of the main supporters of the defence bill during the debate preceding today's vote.
"A man would have to be more than blind," he said, "not to realize the serious condition of world affairs today. Conditions in Europe are more volcanic today than early in 1914."
Speakingi for the Administration and the President, he said Americans during the first three years of the Great War "set smugly over h with a great ocean on either side. believing that the Allies would de feat Germany before we were drawn
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