Show dispelling THE FOG by charles michelson establishment of an american military base on iceland is generally applauded as an obviously intelligent I gent element in our defense preparations prepa pa pd rations of course the isolationists ar are clamoring that the president should have gone to congress and gained congressional cooperation in the project before closing up the deal and there has been much oratory concerning ning infraction of the constitutional tut ional provision reserving to congress the power to declare war etc now just suppose the president had gone to congress with his proposal that iceland should be garrisoned by yankee troops as part of our defense program and barly to forestall hitler from seizing that vantage peni senator wheeler would have stressed his determination to oppose what he calls an approach to war senator nye would have voiced his variation of the theme and senator taft bould have contributed his version of the limitations on the president powers as commander in chief ot 01 the armed forces of the united stats there would be debate running into weeks in the course of chich the full details of our plans and specifications of the proposed base construction would have been ventilated what herr hitler would be doing in the interim is guess tt it seems quite possible had thora there been such a debate that an american transport if one were finally sent would have had an excellent chance of bumping into a mine or being sunk by a submarine senator nat taft is also much exercised because an american engineering firm is building a naval base in northern ireland ulster in an this he sees the establishment of a yen kee base actually it is purely a british project paid for by them doubtless american skilled folks are on that job insider c cy ly w at f on earth would the united states want vant a base in england for the britons would be only too happy to have us use anything got half the factories in russia were built by americans but nobody suggested that on that account they were camouflaged american bases half the railroads in the united states were built with british fi i dancing that did not make them british the answer is that the isolation ests are committed to the theory that the president is bent on getting us into war and so construe every act as a covert attempt to usurp congressional authority etc |