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...whole field of foreign and domestic policy. Other members were threatened and badgered if they failed to go along with the McKellar-McCarran axis. Administration officials were called away from their jobs and up to Capitol Hill to be bullied and harassed. Under McCarran's chairmanship, the EGA watchdog committee (which wanted $344,000 expense money next year) had become a dirt-digging machine to supply Kenneth McKellar's rancorous attacks on EGA...
Sheepherders, Yes. Last week the first cracks in the McKellar-McCarran empire began to appear. With considerable courage, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...
...this red raging was due to what the Coca-Cola company calls "our own individual EGA." By last week its Coke selling campaign had proved so successful that five bottling plants were clanking away in Milan, Leghorn, Venice and Rome. Several hundred thousand bottles were sold daily, and the Communists rightly feared it was another victory for U.S. free enterprise. Complained one Red: "Yesterday I went into my favorite wineshop and found three people there. All were drinking Coca-Cola. The humiliation...
...agreed to think it over. For a week he had sent his most eloquent lieutenants up Capitol Hill to argue for the bill exactly as it stood. Even General George Marshall had come out of retirement to give his measured, unequivocal assurance that the arms program stood foursquare with EGA and the Atlantic Treaty...
...that did not change the fact that last week 200,000 of West Berlin's 2,500,000 people were out of jobs, or that the list of business bankruptcies was lengthening. The U.S. Military Government, demanding a "return to business normalcy," had canceled aid to Berlin from EGA counterpart funds...