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Died. Louis Leon Ludlow, 77, onetime Washington correspondent (several Indianapolis papers, the Columbus, Ohio Dispatch) who became a Congressman himself (a Democrat from Indiana) after 27 years of reporting on Congress, held the job for 20 years; after long illness; in Washington. A militant pacifist and isolationist, Ludlow believed that war could be prevented by taking away Congress' power to declare it, in 1938 almost got through a measure (the Ludlow amendment) that would permit a declaration of war only if the voters approved it in a referendum. Franklin Roosevelt intervened and the bill missed enactment in the House...
...arms-to-Egypt incident had somehow revived that group of Labor M.P.s which all along has more or less secretly opposed Bevin's firm anti-Soviet policy. A few of these M.P.s are Communist fellow travelers, more of them are anti-American, or isolationist, or inspired by fear that the U.S. alliance will sooner or later drag Britain into a hot war with China and Russia. Said one Labor rebel last week: "I've been Bevin's admirer for years. But now it's different. A bull was never meant to walk a tightrope...
...told [by Senator Taft that] it is very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist . . . that all isolationists are extinct, that they are just as dead as the dodo. But there is a new species on the horizon and this new species I call the 're-examinist,' because the re-examinist says, 'I want to re-examine all our policies...
...Stiff? Ohio's Taft had frequently been tagged an isolationist. Said he in an interview with TIME: "My criticism of foreign policy is that the Administration doesn't tell the facts. The facts are suppressed until they decide what they want to do, and then any opponents who criticize the policy are smeared as isolationists...
...Lame Duck Senator Claude Pepper: Has to be interpreted as a gain for the conservative and isolationist forces in the country...