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...Constitutional Crisis." That did it. Last week Congress was in an uproar. An indignant Robert Taft saw the country at a "constitutional crisis." Claims made for "unlimited power to commit troops," said Taft, were "based on the most superficial arguments." Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry introduced a resolution which would prohibit the President from sending any troops to Europe, except for the purpose of repelling an outright attack or as part of the present garrison in Germany...
...Western Europe, Taft recognized, lies the "greatest question of policy before the country." As a guiding principle in determining U.S. policy in Europe, he reiterated: "Commit no American troops to the European continent at this time...
...ringing denunciation of the Administration's whole conduct of world affairs since Teheran and Yalta. The U.S., said he, has embarked on a fatal path-"policies which may lead to unnecessary war, policies which may wreck the internal economy . . . and vastly weaken our economic abilities . . . policies which may commit us to obligations we are utterly unable to perform...
...Taft's case. A Russia now deterred by the threat of U.S. atomic bombs might feel less awed as its own stockpile grew. And there was not much in law to support the argument that the President had "usurped authority" to send troops to Korea and to commit them to Europe. History books listed more than 130 cases where U.S. Presidents sent U.S. troops into armed action to defend the national interest...
Having proved themselves in combat, the Sabres may be useful as protective cover for bombers and for the slow, propeller-driven Mustangs which have been the Air Force's work horse for ground attack in the Korean war. If Russia decided to commit a swarm of fast jets, the Mustangs would be sitting ducks if unprotected-but not if top-covered by enough Sabres...