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...week's end the whole investigation seemed about to collapse in a roar of political ill temper. Chairman Alben W. Barkley, also out of patience with the Republican members, announced that he might quit too. So did Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter. George, who has seldom opened his mouth during the hearings...
Seated with Senator Barkley were four other Senators and five Representatives. Klieg lights glared on the witness chairs. Cameramen were poised for action; there were seats for 100 reporters...
...morning last week big, bluff Senator Alben Barkley rose in the caucus room of the Senate Office Building and rapped for order. Spectators filled the hall to the corners. Senator Barkley asked for absolute quiet; the acoustics are notoriously bad. The Congressional commit tee's investigation of Pearl Harbor had begun: in the days & weeks to follow, history would be dragged up from the dark corners, dusted off and laid out on the committee table for the world to read...
...first hearings were set for this week and President Truman, after considerable backing & filling, finally authorized all Army & Navy personnel to "come forward" with anything they might know about the military debacle. Then Committee Chairman Alben Barkley announced that all information, "whether top secret, secret, confidential or otherwise," would be available to all committee members...
...Pearl Harbor data, Republican members of the Congressional investigating committee proposed that individual committee members be permitted to get any information they wanted from any Government department. Democrats steamrollered them down. Promptly, Maine's Senator Brewster charged that somebody was trying to suppress information. Committee Chairman Alben Barkley replied that he did not think individual members should be permitted to "cruise" around as "private detectives," and the argument ended on that inconclusive note...