ABSTRACT
George Wharton Pepper was now a public figure of undisputed eminence. People would raise their hats to him on Chestnut Street. In Philadelphia he was the representative interpreter of matters just and right. When Edward Bok established the Philadelphia Forum, a cultural and musical series of public performances, he was glad to announce that Senator George Wharton Pepper would "supply the monthly explanation of current events." His acute cognition of the juridical technicalities and of the parochial realities of state politics was insufficient when it came to the greater currents of world events, and specifically of the American role in the world. The Politic Isolationist; and the Cautious Anglo-Saxon: Pepper had a great admiration for Neville Chamberlain, whom he resembled in more than one way. In June the Republican National Convention met in Philadelphia the day that the French capitulated to Hitler. Pepper began by cheering on Governor James, the favorite-son candidate of the PMA and of the Pew family.
