The Ypsilanti Daily Press

Washington, June 16-INS-Congress today appeared headed for a miniature rehash of the League of Nations fight as battle lines formed over a surprise House resolution endorsing American participation in "appropriate international machinery" to "maintain" peace after the war. Storm clouds immediately gathered over the traditionally isolationist Midwest delegations, with Rep. Dewey Short (R) Mo., demanding a Republican caucus "to see if this is the goggle-eyed postwar blank check to President Roosevelt that it looks like it is."

Approved unanimously by the House Foreign Affairs Committee in an unheralded meeting yesterday, the measure at once drew praise from House Democratic Leader McCormack as an "historic and vastly important piece of legislation." He announced on the House floor that it would be put to a vote next week. Rep. Fulbright, a youthful Democrat and ex-president of the University of Arkansas who is author of the resolution, declared its adoption by Congress would be a "positive disavowal of the isolationist policy."

I don't think anyone, including the author, knows what the words mean, but now is no time to bring up such a resolution. I thought we were trying to have unity in this country? They'll never have it this way. Whose idea was this anyway?

The resolution, only one sentence long, reads: "Resolved by the House (the Senate concurring) that the Congress of the United States hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and maintain a just and lasting peace, and as favoring the participation of the United States therein."

There was not much enthusiasm evinced from the Senate side where leaders have sought to avoid votes at this time on such issues. Chairman Connally (D) Tex. of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, noted that the Senate, not the House, has the treaty-making powers, but added the upper branch would "be glad to have the view of the House."