Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Congressmen, some with axes and some with feather dusters, flailed away last week at the Administration's $597 million program for interim aid to Europe. Their flailing was more vigorous than most of the program's proponents had expected...
...beneath the partisanship, there was much deep concern. Hard and complex problems had to be faced. Congressmen buckled down to work...
...this rate, congressional funds would obviously not be available by Dec. 1, the deadline set by Secretary of State Marshall. But some Congressmen, alarmed by Communist riots in Italy and France, hoped to get the program under way quickly, anyway. They talked about tacking on an amendment permitting the Administration to borrow $100 million immediately from...
...rode close herd on the Marshall Plan from the start. After the 16-nation conferees began their meetings in Paris last July, Lew Douglas was more often in France than in London, digging for facts, explaining Europe's needs to visiting Congressmen, always staying tactfully in the background at a time when the U.S. was officially not intervening. When the conferees had finished, he came back to the U.S. with Will Clayton to help screen Europe's requests and draft legislation for interim and long-range aid. He wrote some of the technical and financial clauses himself, flew...
Since then a lot of Republican Congressmen have been to Europe. They realized, as one Democrat put it, that they had "left us wide open with no comeback for the Red campaign of misrepresentation which is sweeping Europe." Last week there were indications that Congress' feelings had undergone a change...