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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reputation had been earned as much by its mistakes as its successes. U.S. reluctance to exert its power and leadership, U.S. hesitancy to act decisively and consistently had cost the free world dearly in the past. From Korea last week, New York Timesman Richard J. H. Johnston reported in alarm that "the average G.I. seems not to know why he is fighting in Korea." "The recruiting posters didn't say anything about this," a young infantryman told him. "I'll fight for my country, but damned if I see why I'm fighting to save this hell...
...from Congress. "I have been criticized as having been too stiff and formal in my relations with Congress," said Wilson. "I have been stiff and formal. That is the way I think a program like this should be run." The President thanked him for his good work in the past, but did not urge him to stay...
...House cited 56 persons for contempt of Congress. All of them had refused to answer questions put to them by the Un-American Activities Committee in the past year. Thirty-nine were Hawaiians who defied questions asked by committeemen during an on-the-scene investigation of Communism in the territory; four were scientists who worked on atomic bomb projects; the others were various Reds and officials of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, including Julius Emspak and James Matles. Conviction may bring $1,000 fine, a year in jail...
...where they belonged had a spectacular candidate of their own: a hefty, hearty rancher and onetime Hollywood lawyer named Herman Welker. Out to "relieve Idaho of the embarrassment of Glen H. Taylor," Welker aimed more oratory at him than at his opponents in his own Republican primary. Welker, a past master of the political cliche ("I wear no man's yoke"), denounced Fair Deal "socialistic schemes," even laid the Korean war on Harry Truman's doorstep...
...great many other Americans felt the same way. For the past fortnight that Russian face on the nation's television screens blocked not only Howdy Doody, but such other favorites as Lucky Pup, and Life with Snarky Parker. But the show that replaced them-a curious mixture of boredom and excitement, alternating long-winded oratory with sharp, electrifying statements of historic rights & wrongs-was definitely worth America's while. To millions of Americans it brought the unique experience of seeing the enemy right in their living room...