Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen, Forrestal's chiefs of staff explained in astonishing detail how they would employ the military establishment which he proposed. A little more than a quarter of a million troops would have to be used in occupation and garrison duties. Alaskan forces should be increased from 7,000 to 15,000 combat and air-service troops. The balance (510,000) would be the nation's ready force, whose various missions would be to repulse an invasion, deny nearby bases to the enemy, secure faraway bases for the Air Force...
...normal world, a fact of which Congress as well as the President was now well aware. Before the week was out, Congressmen realized also that the President's speech was only the first step in a new, cold and hard-boiled U.S. foreign policy...
Last week the President also: ¶ Directed all executive agencies to refuse both Congress and the courts access to confidential information gathered in loyalty investigations of Government employees. Republican Congressmen immediately attacked the order as a step toward "one-man government." The President's explanation: "Disclosure of sources would embarrass informants . . . disclosure of information might be the grossest kind of injustice...
...putting all the emphasis on partition, the U.S. had evaded certain other moral responsibilities, particularly to refugees in Europe. Congressmen had consistently refused to consider the Stratton bill, which would have admitted 400,000 D.P.s to the U.S. For refugee Jews, Zion had been their only hope. To the Arabs it looked as if the U.S. preferred to see the Jews of Europe dumped into Palestine. The New York Times summed up: "A series of moves which has seldom been matched for ineptness...
...appeared to be on the right road. Briefly, last summer, with the announcement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. had held the initiative. Russia was in momentary retreat. Last week the Marshall Plan was still a going idea and would soon help bolster the rickety economy of Europe. U.S. Congressmen had largely abandoned old ideas of isolationism. To most observers basic U.S. policies seemed sound. Then what had gone wrong...