Evening star., 1939-10-20

trality debate this afternoon.
Il rise in the Senate for the
purpose of denying that Col.
Lindbergh speaks for America,
of denying that he speaks for
any considerable section of the
American people" Senator Brown
asserted.
BY ]. A. OLEARY.
Repeal of the arms embargo
would place this country half in
and half out of war" Senator john
son, Republican, of California, vet.
eran isolationist, asserted in the Sem
ate today in what may be one of the
closing speeches of general debate on
the administrators cash-and-carry
neutrality bill.
Leaders hoped to begin considera-
ton of detailed provisions Monday.
1--WE know from our bitter expert
ence in the past how easy it is to
shove us along until we are fully in,
and this is the nub of the matter
continued the 73-year-old Califor-
nian, one of the "irreconcilables" of
the League of Nations fight.
But on two grounds--first, that
Adolf Hitler will not conquer Eu-
rope and, second, that he would not
attack the United States even If he
defeated England and Franciscan
ator johnson repudiated the argu-
ment that we must help ourselves by
helping the Allied governments.
Calls Idea Idiotic.
What an idiotic assumption" he
declared. And yet earnest and
honest men repeat it. If we were
not afflicted with war psychology
We would not listen to this reason
for repeal of the arms embargo for
one-Quarter of a second.
Hitler will never conquer Europe.
It has never been done by any one
yet. Countless efforts have been
made to establish hegemony by
force and none have succeeded. The
closest approach to any was by
Napoleon. And to compare Hitler
to Napoleon is absurd.
Hitler could never attack this
country successfully. He would
leave behind him revolt every
where, a resurgent nationalism
would likely overcome him and a
guerrilla warfare would be rife.
There would ever be behind him the
bear who walks like a man.
And if by that time we have not
dlssipated our resources, we could
stand upon our own shores. with our
alrplanes and carriers and a vastly
superior Navy, and laugh at his ef-
forts. hope We have heard the
last OF the argument well be next"
Recalling the bitter Senate fight
over the League of Nations following
the World War. in which he played
leading role, the silver-haired Cali
fornian declared:
How we'll remember in the fight
on the League of Nations, when Mr..
Wilson was obdurate, and a great
English statesman said: Let them
have their reservations. Take them
all. Get them in. Get them in
He knew full well that once we got
In halfway we never would extricate
ourselves.
THE League of Nations men are
very much in evidence in this con.
troversy. They would still, in their
1atuous way, have us enter that
morlbund group. And, as they sing
hosannahS to collective security,'
choose the aggressor and the holy
league, interspersing their hymns
with savage anathemas and bitter
eplthets against those who once took
part against them, they permit their
long-suppressed emotions again to
influence their judgment"
In the closing hours of yesterdays
debate, Senator Austin, Republican,
OF vermont, a supporter of embargo
repeai. announced he regarded the
pending neutrality bill as a part of
Americas national defense program
and that early victory for the allies
would further the peace and security
of this country.
Argument Hit by johnson.
Taxing the floor at noon TODAY.
Senator johnson turned his fire on
this argument in the following
words:
There are many Senators doubt
less who approve it on the ground
That 1t will help the allies and that
the allied victory is in American in
terest. But this is mere gamble.
Such stakes are involved in the gam
Die that I decline to be a part of it.
If these Senators wish to give
military or other help to the allies
to win the war, and if that is their
motive, then the lifting of the en-
barge is an act of Intervention. It is
q mere gamble that we change our
law SO as to help one side defeat the
other and yet escape the conse-
quences of war. The gamble may be
successful, but it is very speculative
and will not gamble with American
lives"
As the Californian made his areu-
ment with characteristic vigor, sew
eral supporters of repeal of the
embargo were waiting to speak in
defense of the administration bill
during the afternoon.
There is q growing feeling that
eAAS NAAAAAoA W Vic AASIAt pIOUdDly WILL
come in the House, which must act
on the revised Senate measure.
Senator johnson began with the
assertion that two truths are self
evident in this discussion: "One,
that repeal of the embargo favors
the allies; two. that such repeal,
accomplished after the beginning
Of the war, would be unneutral."
Taking notice of the speech late
yesterday of Majority Leader Bark
ley, In which he strongly defended
embargo repeal, Senator johnson
continued:
"As the Democratic leader said
yesterday, I have but one lamp by
which my feet are guided, and that
Is the lamp Of experience. There is
but one mode In which can decide
this question, and that is In the
pure light Of reason and the steady,
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