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countries. The bill already per-
to $1,000, 100000 out of past appro-
priations.
Although final passage of the
bill has been put off to an uncer-
tain date by the determined fight
| of the opposition, administration
forces said last night the Senate
lineup is still two to one, or better,
for the bill. 1t is generally con-
ceded the roll call votes on some
of the major amendments will be
close, however.
While Senator Hill was Defend
ing the bill in broadcast last
night, two opponents also went on
the air-Senators Danaher, Repub-
lican, of Connecticut and Chavez,
Democrat, of New Mexico
Senator Hill declared "the time
for delay, the time for dawdling, the
time for procrastination has passed" !"
If the bill passes and Britain sur
wives the crisis of this spring and
summer, he said, "the probability of
the defeat and disintegration of the
axis powers will be strong indeed"
Downfall of Nazis Forecast.
without sea power, and with
control of the air against them"
he continued, "the armies of the
axis powers cannot indefinitely hold
even the European continent in sub
lection. Sooner or later the in
evitable reaction against Nazi Slav-
cry and Nazi barbarism will come
and with it the downfall of the
Nazi tyrants."
On the other hand. he pictured
the fall of Britain and its sea
power as making it necessary for
America to become an armed camp.
THE United States" he said,
would find itself within the jaws
of a gigantic pincers movement
one jaw in Japan and the other
jaw in world-conquering Germany,
with South America as the handle
through which the pressure would
be applied to u.s."
Wheeler Speech Quoted.
In questioning Senator Wheeler's
prophecies of what would follow
passage of the conscription law,
Senator Hill quoted the Montana
Senator as having said in speech
against that bill last August:
Enact peacetime conscription
and no longer will this be a free
land; no longer will a citizen be
able to say that he disagrees with
a Government proclamation or edict.
flushed whispers will replace free
speech. Secret meetings in dark
places will supplant free assem-
blage; labor and industry, men and
women will be shackled by the
chains they have themselves
forged
How utterly ridiculous, how abb
solutely absurd was this statement
by Senator Wheeler" the Alabaman
commented. I'VE have had the
conscription law on the statute
books for some six months now and
no one of the dire prophecies he
made has come to pass"
Senator Hill also challenged the
predictions of Senator Nye, Republi-
can, of North Dakota, another lead
ing opponent of the pending bill, by
asserting that in August, 1899, Sena-
tor Nye issued a statement Ito the
effect that there has not in months
been less likelihood of war in Eu-
rope" Within three weeks, Sena-
tor Hill said, Hitler was invading
Poland.
Lees Statement Applauded.
AS Senator Wheeler neared the
end of his long attack on the bill
which began Friday, Senator Lee,
Democrat, of Oklahoma, drew ap-
plause from the galleries when he
broke in to declare that "the Brit
ish Navy is all that is standing be-
tween the United States and Hitler
today"
"I think it's cowardly for any
Senator to stand here on the floor
and say that" Senator Wheeler re-
advocate declaration of war"
When Senator Lee sought to an
swer this Senator Wheeler said he
was anxious to complete his speech.
The Senator has called me a
coward and will not give me a
chance to reply shouted Senator
Lee, supporter of the bill.
"Oh, no, I didn't" Senator
Wheeler replied, explaining he
meant it would be cowardly for
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