President Backs Fortifying Guam, second column, first full paragraph...
quoting:
"That the section of the bill relating to Guam will be opposed before the committee and subsequently on the floor of the House appears certain. The opposition will base its arguments on the ground that Guam is too near the shores of Japan to justify the proposed fortification by this country and that such a step might offend Japan and thereby imperil existing relations between that country and the United States."
Now you make me wonder if you really understand what's going on here? Remember, President Roosevelt was a Democrat internationalist, trying desperately to prepare an hugely unwilling nation for possible war.
His opposition were the Ron Paul / Pat Buchanan Republican isolationists of that day, lead by people like Senators Robert Taft of Ohio and Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan.
I've said before, I think the NY Times was just a mouthpiece of Roosevelt in those days, but even FDR at the height of his powers, had to contend with serious opposition from Republicans and some isolationist Democrats.
Surely, you don't BLAME the Times for mentioning REPUBLICANS once in a while, even when the Times studiously avoids saying their names! ;-)