Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democraft, charged that the Administration planned to accede to a British request for convoys when United States war materials were ready for Britain in large quantities and when Germany opened the submarine attack.
When the shooting starts, we will be in the war," Senator Wheeler declared, Senator Guy Gillette, Iowa Democrat, introduced amendments forbidding American shipping to carry goods or passengers to belligerent ports and deleting from the lend-lease bill the clause stating, "No! withstanding any other law....(fhis law would be effective)"
"Time to Arm"
Senator Morris Sheppard, Texas Democrat, said the lend-lease BW must be enacted to give the United States time to arm against an "ultimate assault by aggressor totalifarians whenever. in their mad determination to conquer, they impose their principles on Us."
Senator Sheppard said the aggressive polices of "three powerful nations, two on the Atlantic coast and one on the Pacific, makes the United States vulnerable to attack from any of them"
He praised President Roosevelt's endeavours to maintain world peace and credited his "arm stand" with causing Japan to cancel a "number of contemplated oggressions."—Unit-
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