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...about to set up a mercenary Foreign Legion. The 81st Congress had laid down some specific safeguards in passing the 1950 Lodge-Philbin Act, which had been conceived and argued into law by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. He thought that the U.S. was missing an opportunity to recruit fighting men, with something to fight for, among exiles from Iron Curtain countries living as displaced persons in Germany. No more than 2,500 "skilled military specialists and technicians," unmarried and between the ages of 18 and 35, will be accepted. The men are not to serve in national groups...
Another lame duck from the old 81st Congress combed the birdshot from his feathers last week and limped back into action. South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney, who lost his Senate seat to Isolationist Francis Case in a primary election last spring, won his reward for loyal support of Administration defense programs on the Armed Services Committee. The reward: a presidential appointment to fill out the remaining 22 months of a vacant seat on the Civil Aeronautics Board. Salary: $15,000 a year...
Many of us, disappointed and disheartened by the vacillating and muddling of the 81st Congress, went to the polls in high hopes of rectifying that situation. Now we find, to our dismay, that all we have seemingly accomplished has been to further the power of such petty and irresponsible men as Senator McCarthy, who seem interested only in furthering their own selfish, political interests...
Last week Senator McCarthy, who swings a good deal more weight in the 82nd Congress than he ever did in the 81st, got his revenge. As ranking Republican on the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, he briskly ousted Margaret Smith from a choice Senate investigating subcommittee (which last year investigated the five-percenters in Washington and homosexuals in the State Department). In her place he put California's freshman Senator Richard Nixon, who made his mark on the House Un-American Activities Committee as the man who brought down Alger Hiss. Margaret Smith was banished...
Harry Truman's dander was up. The 81st Congress had constantly stepped on his executive toes. Now the new 82nd was trying to tell him what he should do. A number of Congressmen were demanding that he fire Dean Acheson; a number of others were trying to hold his feet to the fire for his foreign policy, an attempt to which he angrily assigned a purely political motive. It was in defiant reaction to those irritations that he had tossed off his truculent assertion that the President had the right to send U.S. troops anywhere in the world, whether...