The Archive · 1941

Passage Anticipated

Mr. Raybu is Democrat, and other leaders were confident the Admi tration had sufficient strength to defeat the flood of Republican amendments aimed at curi g Presidenti; powers, h Senator Robert LaFollette, Wisconsin Progressive, and Mr. Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader had told the Foreign Aflairs Committee were dictatorial.

Mr. Bloom sounded the tone of the debate when the declared "pass of the bill is the best way to safeguard our land and liberty."

jen with: aid to Britain other words, no tion at all—the risk of w ater than by aiding Britain.

"Pressure" Seen on Japan In the course of the debate, Mr Luther Johnson, Texas Demoer charged that Italy and Germany were "pressuring" Japan in an effort t force her into "aggressive action" against the U.S. and said that if Britain fell, Japan would move against the U.S. and "we would be attacked

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