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Taylor's record in & out of Congress has been nearly everything Henry Wallace could ask for. He was a rank isolationist in 1940, a total-war man after Pearl Harbor. He stands foursquare with Henry against the Marshall Plan. In the Senate, he voted to keep interim aid funds for Europe down to less than half the amount ultimately granted. He fought the Taft-Hartley Act, favored continued price & rent controls...
...program will bring reports from world-known figures at home and abroad on the state of Europe and Asia after the winter of interim aid-on the progress of the Marshall Plan-and on the future of Freedom around the world. More later...
Premature Blame? ERP, by far the most important single measure before Congress, was certain to get long, serious and, at times, vitriolic debate. The opposition would be led by Senator Taft, who had approved interim aid to Europe with reluctance. In St. Louis last week, Bob Taft said: "If the Administration insists upon the Marshall Plan in its present form, it can never blame anybody else for the steady increase of prices...
...scramble to dispose of weightier matters, Congressmen did not forget the old custom of giving a year's salary to the heirs of a deceased member -even though this time he was Mississippi's ill-famed Senator Theodore G. Bilbo. In the bill providing $540 million for interim aid to Europe and China, they appropriated $12,500 to be divided equally between Bilbo's son, Lieut. Colonel Theodore G. Bilbo, A.U.S., and his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Forrest Bilbo Smith, of Poplarville, Miss...
Vandenberg's personal contribution was threefold. As a parliamentarian he guided the Greek-Turkish and interim aid bills through Congress almost singlehandedly. As a policymaker, he prodded and pushed the State Department into recognizing the hopelessness of dealing with the Russians...