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...rendezvous with Churchill, written by Correspondent Chesly Manly, said that "the grand strategy of the new Anglo-American-Russian alliance" included "the assistance of a vast American expeditionary force." When the President read that report he hit the ceiling. Steve Early, in no playful humor, called Senator Barkley, Representative Sol Bloom, other leaders in whom Roosevelt had confided, and accused them of misrepresenting the President's remarks. Hopping mad, the Congressmen elected Senator Barkley to go after Correspondent Manly...
Next day, in a city famed for denunciations of reporters, Senator Barkley delivered the most blistering denunciation of Correspondent Manly and the Tribune that Washington had heard in many a day. The gist: that Manly's alleged inside story was "a deliberate, and malicious falsehood out of the whole cloth." Correspondent Manly stuck to his story. Colonel McCormick backed him up with a scorching anti-Roosevelt editorial running almost a column...
...conference's close, bumbling Alben Barkley told newsmen that the Administration would go after Congressional approval of a resolution for extending the service term, added: "When the need for legislation becomes apparent I believe Congress will in no way shirk its duty...
...news of that step came to the public when the President sent a message to Congress. The night before, the President had called seven Congressional leaders to a very secret conference at the White House-Senate Leader Barkley, Senators George (Foreign Relations) and Connally; Speaker Rayburn. Representatives McCormack (Majority Leader), Sol Bloom (Foreign Affairs) and Luther Johnson. The President, sitting back of his big desk in his upstairs study, was serious but in good humor, and he did most of the talking. He frankly admitted that he had taken a serious step and said he wanted to discuss it with...
...reminded of this story when I read your account of Senator Barkley's speech at the unveiling of Huey Long's statue [TIME...