Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news sheet tells us that Congressmen are being "troubled" by two questions from their constituents: 1) "Why isn't my Johnny getting home faster?" and 2) "Why are they drafting my Johnny, now that the war is over?" . . . Mother No. 1 should be among the most enthusiastic supporters of a peacetime draft law. Mother No. 2 should thank God that her little darling was born too late to fight in this war, and is only being asked to serve now, in perfect safety, to relieve a man who has, perhaps, already gone through months, or years, of hell...
Into Today. Republican Congressmen were quick to demand that the joint Senate-House committee investigating the Pearl Harbor defeat have a look at the letter. Governor Dewey said his copy would remain in his safe at Albany. He referred all questions about it to General Marshall...
With each new mail delivery, Congressmen got more jittery. The angry letters, pouring in last week from the folks at home and the boys abroad, were all but unanimous: speed up demobilization, or else. Sweating under the mounting pressure, Senate Military Affairs Committeemen talked nervously of "passing a bill." When General MacArthur, in Tokyo, guesstimated he could police Japan with 200,000 men (see INTERNATIONAL), the pot boiled...
When he finished, there was not a single question. The pressure went down, visibly. The Gallup poll found that most people were satisfied with the rate of discharge. But before long, Congressmen expected the heat would be on again...
Some U.S. officials at Potsdam thought that Stalin tired easily, looked far from well. Others at Potsdam said, with equal certainty, that Stalin looked alert, active, somewhat younger than his age. Moscow reports last week had him laughing heartily, talking animatedly, doodling enthusiastically between translations. Visiting U.S. Congressmen said he was in fine fettle. Russians quizzed on his health said only: "Stalin is a Georgian. Georgians live forever...