Borah on Dictatorship

Borah on Dictatorship

"I recognize that we are facing an emergency and emergency measures are necessary. I, for one, forgetting partisanship and politics and prerogatives, will agree to give our incoming President dictatorial powers within the Constitution for a certain period."

Senator Borah would have thundered out those startling words in the Senate chamber last week if he had followed verbatim the advice he received in a letter from M. C. Migel, Providence, R. I. silk manufacturer. But no such utterance passed the lips of the ursine Idahoan. Instead, he replied to Mr. Migel's suggestion by mail as follows:

"I have seen no statement indicating that the President-elect desired any dictatorial powers. . . . Should Congress undertake to confer upon him dictatorial powers, I would hope, I would expect him to fling it back in the chattering teeth of a pusillanimous Congress with the reminder that he was the President of the U. S. and not its dictator. . . ."

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