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APPENDIX D
:
SERVICA*
1941
Lend Lease -- Debate in the Senate on H. R. 1776
Date: March 1, 1941.
President: Roosevelt.
Discussion:
The opponents of the bill felt that:
"Mr. TAFT.
its provisions in effect give the
President power to carry on a kind of undeclared war all
over the world, in which America would do everything except
actually put soldiers in the front-line trenches where the
fighting is. " (87 Cong. Rec. 1588)
Senator Wheeler, also of the same view, said:
"
If it is true, according to the theory of
those who say so, that the President may do anything as
Commander in Chief, that he may order the Army and Navy to
go to any place to which he wants to send them, and as
Commander in Chief, in peacetime then, as I shall point out,
as a matter of fact he may send battleships into any zone
into which he wants to send them.
"Of course, as I shall point out, the fathers of the
Constitution never intended such a distortion of the Com-
mander in Chief theory as is now being advanced by our
totalitarian legal interpreters. They never gave the
President any such power as that. " (ibid.)
He later added:
"Let us be more specific. The proponents of this bill,
both in and out of Congress, are proclaiming a new consti-
tutional theory which places the actual power to involve
our country in war at the uncontrolled discretion of the
Executive. (p. 1601)
*
"This role of the President, according to our totali-
tarian philosophers, is all-inclusive and knows no limits.
The Congress may not pass any law, either by amendment to
this bill or otherwise, forbidding use of American naval
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