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Democrats had expected a plea for aid to China; Republican Clare Luce picked a topic of perhaps greater importance: Who will rule the postwar airways? (TIME, Feb. 15). In this new sphere, air-minded Clare Luce sprung an old American phobia: that a shrewd and calculating John Bull is going to hornswoggle a naive and idealistic Uncle Sam unless somebody watches...
...drag end of a dreary, routine day. In the House chamber, up rose Connecticut's freshman Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce to make her maiden speech. Ordinarily, in such circumstances, a new member would talk to empty seats; this time more than a third of the House remained to listen. Forty minutes later the speech was over; and an international rumpus was just beginning...
More soberly, Clare Luce added: "I do not mean by civil air supremacy that this country should monopolize the air traffic of the world. We are strong, and not only can we afford to be generous for the peace of the world, we must be. . .. To paraphrase the words of our gallant ally, Winston Churchill ... we were not elected by our constituents to preside over the liquidation of America's best interests, either at home or abroad. The sky's the limit of those interests. The time...
Next day, everybody was talking at once. Parts of the old Isolationist press were delighted. Said Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times Herald, on page 1: "Clare Boothe Luce, long considered one of our most ardent internationalists, yesterday came home to roost." Delighted also was the stoutly international, Anglophile New York Herald Tribune, which saw in the speech no Isolationist overtones...
...alternate appointment to Annapolis, but he tired of waiting and got into West Point by competitive examination. His West Point colleagues remember him only as the sort of mathematical shark that makes promising material for the field artillery. At the Point he acquired the nickname "Whitey," and met Clare Huster, whom he married three years later...