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...Year-Alben W. Barkley. Thank God, it can't happen here...
Douglas MacArthur II, 34, nephew of the General, son-in-law of Kentucky's Alben Barkley, is a gaunt young diplomat who used to be secretary of the U.S. Embassy at Vichy under Admiral William D. Leahy, now President Roosevelt's personal military adviser. While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis...
...That the rise was an overdue result of such bullishly anti-Roosevelt incidents as the Barkley blowup (TIME, March 6), previously held up by selling to meet taxes. More recent events, like the Colorado elections (see p. 22), helped...
...Connally battle-cry had a meaning which transcended the individual fortunes of Alben Barkley. It was also a declaration of the U.S. Senate's independence from Executive domination. The Barkley revolt had completed a process begun in 1937, by which control of the Senate has passed from convinced or captive New Dealers to a working coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. For the New Deal is a real minority now: of the last 13 who voted to uphold the President's veto, at least three are secretly against a Fourth Term for their Boss...
...eleven important committees. Connecticut's Francis Maloney and Missouri's Harry Truman are independent voters and thinkers; neither has much influence on the floor. Montana's Burt Wheeler, diehard Roosevelt hater, is a formidable individual fighter. But the real leaders are Kentucky's Barkley, Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These are all veterans who feel that the deference due their long Party service has been withheld by Franklin...