Young Bob Speaks

Since Dec. 7, 1941, Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr., who was bitterly isolationist before that historic date, has generally held his peace. But last week the son of the late great pacifist "Old Bob" La Follette stood up in the Senate and spoke for three solid hours. When he had finished, he had given his attentive audience a possible foretaste of angry Senate debate to come.

To his opening statement few could take exception: with world responsibilities now thrust upon it, the U.S., he declared, should strive for a "realistic international organization."

But he doubted that the San Francisco...

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