Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota, said the Stimson speech was "just part, of the blitzkrieg to move the people into convoys and then into war."
Anti-convoyists, headed by Senator Charles W, Tobey, Republican of New Hampshire, announced they would centre their next struggle around an attempt to write an anti-convoy ban into the ship bill which the House passed, Senator Tobey said he would dsk a roll call vote placing every Sena-for on record.
"I measure my words," he said, "when I say that the vote will be'a war vote."
As the House approved the bill it gave the President power to requisition and pay for, under the lend-lease bill, all foreign owned vessels tied up in American ports. He may use these ships either here or make them available to other countries. The only amendment the House accepted was one which would credit to war debts owed to the United States, the amounts paid for the ships.—United Press.
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