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...tired old proposition that the Korean war had effectively exploded as far as mine-run liberals were concerned. When the Douglas statement hit the Senate teletypes, Idaho's Republican Herman Welker gleefully asked unanimous consent to read it into the record. Texas' Tom Connally, chief custodian of the Administration's foreign relations on Capitol Hill, shouted an angry objection to what Shangri-Lawyer Douglas...
Informed that his name will be entered in next year's Democratic primary in Minnesota by petition (the candidate's consent is not required), Truman replied to Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Thank you." When he was told that he will be placed in the Oregon primary by petition, he said nothing...
...prepare excuses for failure. Truman will say, 'Well, we tried our level best, but it did no good.' Six words saved Greece. In the directive to Van Fleet were the words, 'advise and train at all levels.' I asked General Marshall if he would not consent that the same words be applied to China. He refused...
...shabby one-room apartment near Milan which he shares with two elderly aunts, a cousin and several cats. But Claire found Italy "beautiful and peaceful" - until the American consulate demanded her passport to return her to the U.S. as a minor living abroad without her parents' consent. Claire refused, said she would renounce her American citizenship first, and got an Italian soggiorno (residence permit), which expired this week...
...reckoned without Cuba's thousands of one-room cigar makers. Convinced that their livelihood was at stake, these small independents rose last week in rebellion. Many other Cubans joined in their protest. In the central province of Santa Clara, crowds seized 14 town halls, often with the enthusiastic consent of mayors and aldermen. In Placetas, 5,000 marched through the streets shouting: "Down with mechanization...