HOMER T. BONE
(Homer Truett Bone)
Giving his analysis of the start of World War I:
On the subject of international law in the pre-World War II period, one of the Senate's most outspoken isolationists said:. Tophet is a valley near Jerusalem, associated with death. See II Kings 23:10; Isaiah 30:33; Jeremiah 7:31-33. Tophet was also known as Valley of Hinnom (Gehinnom in Hebrew, eventually becoming English Gehenna, "Hell." For a contrasting view of international law, see below, Johnson.
Homer Truett Bone was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana. He ran as a candidate for a variety of parties and was elected to the State House. In 1932, he was elected as a Democrat as United States Senator from Washington, and re-elected to a second term.
