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...Alternative. From the sands of Palm Beach, the New York Times's Arthur Krock reported the uneasiness of a group of men with whom he talked one night. Among them were Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime ambassador to Great Britain, and Bernard Baruch. They saw a U.S. foreign policy leading to prodigal spending, national bankruptcy and destruction of the very democratic system which the policy sought to protect. Kennedy doubted that such investments as Truman recommended would ever succeed in stopping Communism's spread. The poverty-stricken peoples of the world, he thought, were bound to try out Communism...
...Bernard Baruch as chairman of the international authority...
...Taft's mind the clincher was the "same general softness" in the "Lilienthal report." According to Taft, the plan (until modified by Bernard Baruch) would have permitted "an international authority to duplicate our atom manufacturing plants throughout the world-including Russia." Taft's conclusion: "I do not want to see a man as muddled in his thinking on questions of international power in charge of our atom-bomb policies. I would consider his confirmation a real threat to our national safety...
Chumminess is Catoctin's keynote. "Of course," chuckles Roosevelt to Baruch, "you won't be interested in [sandwiches] made with that ham from Georgia, but there are some . . . made of sanitary Wisconsin cheese, just for you." Mr. Churchill often bounds off into sonorous oratory, uses words like "bloody" and "jolly." Mr. Baruch is a wise elder statesman who can feel things "in his bones." Mr. Hopkins, who represents the frustrated New Dealer, is sincere but tart, and has to be reprimanded by Roosevelt for using the word "stink" in front of Mr. Churchill. Author Franklin, who once worked...
...issue of atomic energy itself, Lilenthal's opposition to domestic military control is well-known, having been shown clearly in his famous report to the President last spring which was made the basis for the Baruch proposals. Therefore, refusal by the Senate to confirm him in his new office might well give the military another energy developments in this country. Although they lost when the McMahon Bill was passed last summer, although public opinion polls of the past year have demonstrated a steadily increasing majority of the American people in favor of civilian control, the military and their congressional supporters...