"Well, brethren, you are on the spot."
Ohio's thoughtful John M. Vorys was addressing the whole U.S. House of Representatives, but he looked straight at his Republican colleagues. Up for debate was a bill to earmark $1,350,000,000 as the U.S. share (i% of estimated 1943 national income) for aid to war victims through the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. When it came right down to appropriating U.S. dollars, was Congress really ready to cooperate with 43 other nations in a nonmilitary project? It was a tempting chance to play GOPolitics with an Administration bill. But ex-isolationists who stepped forward hopefully to...