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Just when cooler heads in the Administration had about decided to forget the whole thing, up jumped Connecticut's Democratic Brien McMahon last week to wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...
What did the dragon look like? In the Communist Daily Worker, where the words were first flung, and in such papers as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, which gave them happy credence and currency, it was a sinister conspiracy, nourished on Chinese Nationalist gold and spouting un-Americanisms. It was so sinister, in fact, that the Communist Party, in its secret directive of 1949, ordered the faithful to hammer away at the propagandistic phrase...
...Last week Foreign Relations committeemen took off for Europe to look into the foreign-aid program. They still have to get out a bill on the program. A number of McMahon's colleagues indicated a singular lack of interest. This is unfortunate, since McMahon's dragon will just be left out in the tall grass, there to flourish on fiction, undisturbed by fact...
...years of combat he was wounded many times, losing an eye and thereby earning the nickname of the "One-Eyed Dragon...
Superb Tailoring. What kept the huge audience rooted to its chairs was a modern morality play combining elements of such medieval pageants as St. George and the Dragon and such movies as Little Caesar...