The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26

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 The doors were closed to press and public, but here is what hap- pened.
 Four senators called on the com- mittee to urge a resolution with real teeth, embrasing 8 police force, and authorized the U. s. A. to join the United Nations and others to set up world machinery for peace.
 These four Senators were Ball of Minnesota, Burton of Ohio, Match of New Mexico and Hill of Alabama. For short they are called B2H2. They are not members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so hand- some chairman Long Tom" Con- nally kept them waiting while he boiled the Committee on the more conservative resolution which its own members had drawn up. Their much more vague resolution has the approval of such isolationiStS as North Dakotas Nye, which makes many non-iSolationiSts leery of 1t.
 Chairman Connally went the rounds. He asked what each member thought of the Com. mittee's own resolution. After he had put most of them on rec ord for the conservative resolu- ton, he finally mentioned the fact that the four non-member SenatorS-B2H2-were present.
 Docs the Committee wish t0 hear them?" he asked.
 INTRUDERs FOR PEACE
 Senator Barkley of Kentucky moved that the intruders be heard. Whereupon Hatch of New Mexico read a long statement, able but wordy. Republicans Ball and Burton appeared more briefly. This left five minutes to Hill Of Alabama.
 Then Senator Pepper proposed that the Committee hold public hearings. On such an important subject as permanent world peace.
 Pepper said, he thought the peo- pie who have to sacrifice and suffer during war should be heard. He especially suggested that the Committee call as wit- nesses the Catholic, Protestant, Jewish groups which had adopted broad resolutions for peace ma chinery.
 Senator Murray of Montana, and devout isolationist, agreed with him. But the Committee voted otherwise. Chairman Connally said that 1t was important to bring out a resolution soon and hearings would take two or three weeks.
 'I believe should serve noe tlce on the gentlemen" warned Pepper, "that I intend to bring the strong resolution up on the Floor and press for adoption"
 A scowl passed across Tom Connally's handsome brow.
 "It's Q question of v0teS," he remonstrated. "Tt's vOtes-," he remOnstrated, Its votes - it's what we can pass through the Senate"
 "I beg to disagree," COuntered Pepper. "Tt's not a matter of what we can pass through the Senate, it's what we should pass.
 If a thing is not right we should not pass it, no matter how many votes we can muster. We must not fool the world about any thing as sacred as future peace, and we must not go on record with an ambiguous resolution which we don't really mean" BAR BRITISH COMMONS
 Senator Green of Rhode Island then said that the Committees milk -and-water resolution was the kind that would sanction an- other Congress of Vienna, by which three big nations tried to control the world.
 Senator Vandenberg of Michi- gan, would-be isolationist, coTn- plained that the new toothy reSo- lution had omitted the Mackinac Conference safeguard that future peace machinery must be among sovereign" nations. Republicans at Mackinacs inserted this in or- der to bar the British doninions, interested in plumbing as well as