If it needs amendments. these amendntts caii be made hereafter. and are far more likely to be made if we have shown toward our Allies confidence and good wvill by agreeing to the mutual compact than if we now show suspicion of their honesty and exhibit a selfish disregard of every interest but our own. As late as this last week all the objectors and amenders and reservationists have at last found a conmmon ground of attack O.n the ]Icague of peace. by reason of what some of you have been pleased to call the rape of China. that having occurred. -s alleged. through cortain alleged concessions granted temporarily to Japan in Manchuria. The protection of the Constitution. the Monroe doctrine. immigration. and the sacred tariff were all forgotten or abandoned in order to save China. The tears. the screais of pain forced from lacerated hearts on that side of the Chamber must have an awful effect on the emaotion of the galleryfor whom the show was designedbut those of us on the floor. with millions of others outside. who remember the serene faces of these actors. and their docile acquiescence when great Germany took this same country from helpless China. with greater detriment to the United States. will be pordoned if we refuse to tlance to such music and keep our eyes dry in this deluge of crocodile tears. I do not like that concession to Japan. none of us like any concession.
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