The U.S. At War, Hot Talk

Many a Congressman last week got batches of red-hot mail asking him why in the blankety-blank he had been so blankety-blank stupid to vote against fortifying Guam when the Navy asked for it, back in 1939 and 1940. Meantime Congressmen began sounding off with a little hot talk of their own:

Veteran isolationist Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, 65: "[In any peace treaty] we should take care of America first. Every other country is looking out for itself and we should look out for ourselves. Old German States should be separated and kept separated."

Illinois' Senator Scott Lucas, 49: "Japan should be...

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