Senator Taft said he was expressing a "strenuous protest" against the occupation of Iceland, adding that continuation of such a policy "will nullify for all time the constitutional authority distinctly: reserved to Congress to declare war."
The Ohio Republican, an. outstanding isolationist, said that President Roosevelt was empowered to take measures to defend the United States, tut possessed no power to wage an aggressive war. He then claimed that occupation of Iceland "is an act entirely equivalent to an aggressive war, We are sending 80000 soldiers into the midst of the war zone on foreign soil"—United Press.
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