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October 13, 2020
A Jewish Scholar, an Isolationist Senator, and a Mysterious Quotation from George Washington
Horace Kallen vs. William Borah.
To this day, the first American president’s valedictory warning against “foreign entanglements” is well known, and often cited for purposes both good and ill. But in 1934, Senator William Borah read a Washington Post editorial critical of himself that quoted Washington as having also said, “When, our institutions being firmly consolidated and working with complete success, we might safely and perhaps beneficially take part in the consultations held by foreign states for the advantage of the nations.”
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A Jewish Scholar, an Isolationist Senator, and a Mysterious Quotation from George Washington
Horace Kallen vs. William Borah.