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What was supposed to be a confirmation hearing on the qualifications of Lewis Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be Secretary of Commerce turned out last week to be an undisguised inquisition. To begin with, the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took an unusual step in bringing in a special counsel for the hearing. Committee and counsel called only hostile witnesses, gave Strauss no notice of who would be appearing against him. With witnesses day after day pouring personal rancor into the headlines, the weird sessions added up to one of the bitterest attacks...
...That Means a Liar." The trial of proud, brainy Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, is the most glaring case in a campaign of delay and harassment that Senate Democrats are carrying on against President Eisenhower's appointees (TIME, May 4 et seq.). Fortnight ago Ike pointed out that 47 major appointments were still awaiting Senate confirmation. But Strauss is also a victim of a personal vendetta waged against him by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Agriculture Secretary under Harry Truman and now chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee...
There is no excuse for the way the Senate Commerce Committee is treating Lewis Strauss' nomination as Secretary of Commerce. There is no excuse for the Committee's not having presented a far longer, more detailed and more competently argued case against Strauss than its members have done so far. The prosecution of the nominee has been dangerously inept, and though Strauss' defense has been characteristically evasive, the case against his confirmation has been little stronger...
Although many of Admiral Strauss' most controversial activities stemmed from honest and respectable convictions, his tactics in support of these convictions have been those of the shyster. The wide-spread opposition to Strauss among physicists stems not only from antagonism to his beliefs, but also--and in the main--from a fear of his methods. In a position to make decisions of the greatest importance to the United States and the world, Strauss constantly refused to make the public a party to any of the broad policy arguments which he arbitrated. His abhorrence for candor is his major fault...
...North" and "South" industrial units, composed of such famous firms as Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Dornier. The government has already awarded them contracts to make 200 F-104s and other foreign planes under license. A Krupp subsidiary, "Weser" Flugzeugbau, has been commissioned to design a medium-range transport. In March, Strauss's Defense Ministry parceled out $520 million in military spending, five times the average of any preceding month...