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Cheers. In Congress, the first reaction to the Crimean Charter was overwhelming approval. Said Majority Leader Alben Barkley: "A source of great gratification. . . ." Added Minority Leader Wallace H. White: "This speaks in forthright terms...
...before somebody's Waterloo." And it was clear between the lines that Arthur Krock thought, and hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
...Showdown. On the morning of the showdown, Alben Barkley, wearing a black patch over his bad eye, called a caucus of Democratic Senators. For well over an hour he begged them to let the George Bill come to a vote first, pass it, and then vote on Henry Wallace's qualifications. Finally, he pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph...
Promptly Alben Barkley moved to consider the George Bill and, after some cursory sparring, it passed, 74-to-12. Just as the vote was being taken, a page in knee-breeches tugged at Alben Barkley's coat. The Senator rushed to the cloakroom, returned in three minutes with a penciled slip of paper in his hand. Triumphantly he read it to the Senate. It was a paraphrased* message from the President, two days late, promising that he would sign the George Bill. Thereupon, Alben Barkley moved that the vote on confirming Henry Wallace as just plain Secretary of Commerce...
Whether or not the U.S. press did its best, plenty of others did their worst. At the President's Birthday Ball (which the President did not attend), Cinemactress Veronica Lake prayed: "Godspeed him home, wherever he is." Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, rushing to the rescue of Henry Wallace, told the Senate that Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge" of meeting Stalin and Churchill. London correspondents cabled about a mysterious high U.S. visitor; two days later Britain's Official Court Calendar revealed that Harry Hopkins had conferred with King George VI. Hopkins went on from there, talked...