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MIDDLE EAST The Forgotten Prominent Americans, led by former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Vice President Alben Barkley, busied themselves last week trying to sell a $500 million Israeli bond issue in the U.S. Israel, it was pointed out. is taking in some 6,000 refugees a week, and needs help badly. Nothing was said, however, about the people who became refugees as a result of Israel's birth-the 880,000 Palestinian Arabs uprooted by the Arab-Israeli war.* In December 1948, a U.N. resolution suggested that Israel take them back...
When they got word that five-star Generals Omar Bradley and George C. Marshall were checking into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, current residence of five-star General Douglas MacArthur, and that Vice President Alben W. Barkley was also arriving, hotel protocol experts went into a huddle, reached a solution that seemed to satisfy everyone. MacArthur's red five-star flag, usually flown at the front entrance, was moved around to another door in honor of all three generals. The white Veep flag (13 stars and the American eagle) was hoisted over the main door. But later the experts...
...Washington, a favorite trick of politicos to undermine an opponent-or a trusting friend-is to "leak" uncomplimentary stories about him to newsmen. Last week the leak was briefly turned against Vice President Alben Barkley. The word was whispered around Washington that Alben Barkley could never run again for the vice presidency. "The old man," said one Senator, "just can't take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert...
Actually, Barkley is feeling fine; he is just a bit old (73) to be considered as a running mate for aging Harry Truman, who will be 68 at convention time. His eyesight, which has been bad for some time, has taken no sudden turn for the worse. He shows up on the floor of the Senate almost every day, rotates the presiding chair in a system worked out by Democrats to share a wearisome job. (Said a clerk: "It used to be a great honor; now it's a problem of who gets caught...
...week's end, New York Daily News Columnist John Crosson put his finger squarely on the main reasons for the leaks. Said he: "New York friends of Vice President Barkley . . . are turning a cold, hard gaze on current maneuverings of certain high Democratic strategists to dump the Vice President as Harry Truman's running mate ... So let's have an end to this sneaky attempt by political schemers to sell Alben short. He's solid-and still aging in the wood...