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Some opponents of ERP seemed determined to sludge up the going. Some, who had once quailed at the magnitude of ERP, now asked: "Is it enough?" How, demanded Missouri's white-haired James P. Kem, could a "wall of dollars" keep Communism out of Western Europe? Arthur Vandenberg admitted that ERP was simply "the best of calculated risks." But Kem insisted on having some kind of "reasonable assurance." Snapped Vandenberg: "Can the Senator from Missouri give me any reasonable assurance as to what the plans of the Politburo are . . . regarding their conquest of the west...
...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
...Kem, charged once again that Clark's investigation of Kansas City's vote frauds in last year's congressional primary (TIME, June 16) was "whitewash." But the Republicans ran into a three-day Democratic talkfest which effectively blocked a vote on the Kem resolution. It looked as if denizens of that alley wanted no snoopers...
There were reports that Senate Republicans might seek to bypass the stalemate by efforts to have either the Senate expenditures or rules committee make an inquiry similar to that suggested by Kem...
...chairman Aiken (R-Vt) said he doubts that his expenditures group has the wide authority necessary to take up Kem's charges that Clark "whitewashed" a justice department investigation of alleged vote buying in the Kansas City primary...