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...Kem and Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry had been trying for almost a year to get some such law passed, but never before had they had so receptive an audience. MacArthur's testimony was still fresh in every Senator's mind. The Administration's objections had been that blanket restrictions would interfere with U.S. sources of strategic materials, hamper allied unity, produce such odd results as keeping West Germany from buying potatoes in East Germany. Now, the Senate had its dander...
...Force flyboy, but an armored-force veteran of World War II. He fought harder than any Republican for quick Senate approval of the Administration's troops-to-Europe program. But will those troops be moving into a trap, without air protection, as isolationists like Missouri's James Kem had argued...
...sticks to interpreting what has happened, and, in doing so, usually leans toward the Administration line. But his shrewd wit can often knock an overblown issue down to its true perspective. When other correspondents wrote of a 'Rising tide" of anti-British sentiment in 1949, Cooke observed: "Senator Kem of Missouri . . . has never constituted a rising tide...
...tell the whole story. The Senate was no longer a cave of winds echoing to the oratory of such agile and bitter isolationists as William Borah, Gerald Nye and Burton Wheeler. The dissenters of 1950 were less adept men, like Missouri's fuzz-tongued James P. Kem or Kenneth Wherry, the minority leader from Nebraska, or droning George Malone of Nevada. Conspicuous in their van last week stood the usually forceful and logical Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The President, said Taft, had no legal authority to take the measures he had taken...
...Senate, Missouri's white-haired James Kem interrupted Majority Leader Scott Lucas as he was reading the White House text. He wanted to know if it meant that the President "arrogates to himself the power to declare war?" Lucas said the Senator could figure it out for himself...