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These amendments were allowed: aliens living in the U.S. will be draftable, same as citizens (138 to 123); draftees may write bellyaching letters direct to their Congressmen (voice vote) ; draft-age volunteers for the Army may sign up for only a 26-month volunteer hitch (voice vote); 19-year-olds must be called to the colors before 18½-year-olds (158 to 82); inactive and volunteer reservists called up to active service may take their cases to civilian appeal boards (voice vote...
Senator Tobey started things at a secret session of the Senate subcommittee investigating the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (TIME, March 5). The President, he told the Senators, had telephoned him last month to warn that the White House "had the goods on a great many" Congressmen who had taken fees for influencing RFC loans. This sounded like either the makings of a first-rate scandal or a brazen attempt to head off the congressional investigation, and Tobey hounded the White House for proof. Three weeks later, he said, the President called back to admit he had no such proof...
...perhaps most) of the important subjects dealt with by high officers of all armies are partly military and partly political or economic or social or psychological. It is no reflection on George Marshall to say that he is the most successful congressional lobbyist of his time. Reaching agreement with congressmen on the defense objectives and needs of the U.S. was a main part of Marshall's wartime job as Chief of Staff. Such a job cannot be performed without reference to nonmilitary matters...
...basic purpose of such an investigation is to provide Congressmen with facts necessary for intelligent legislation. Reluctant witnesses who refuse to testify in closed sessions are charged with contempt of Congress, a delicate legal problem. But with the advent of televised open hearings, the probers demand that a witness not only answer their questions but answer them for the instruction and titillation of every TV owner in the country. There is considerable doubt that a witness can legally be punished for refusing to make a public spectacle of himself on the televised screen. Eventually, this will be a problem...
Since there is no established Fair Practices Law for Congressional hearings, the implications of televising these hearings become more ominous. A number of irresponsible Congressmen have capitalized on the publicity of such investigations in the past, and the new medium of TV has provided them with even greater vote-getting opportunities. The potentialities offered by a multi-million audience would be an irresistible temptation to smear experts of the McCarthy stripe...