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...Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader William Knowland demanded a U.S. blockade of China in an effort to force release of the 13. Said Knowland: "We should serve notice on them that no vessel can get in or out of China until these Americans are released. I believe we can make it so expensive to them that our men will be released...
...State Department, Far East experts were far less certain than Knowland about the effectiveness of a blockade. They pointed out that Red China still would have a free and important channel of commerce by its overland routes into the Soviet Union. There was serious official doubt, too, about whether allies of the U.S. would join in a blockade...
Then Secretary of State Dulles pointedly demonstrated that Senate Leader Knowland was speaking for himself and not for the Eisenhower Administration. Rejecting blockade at this time, Dulles promised that "Our nation will react, and react vigorously, but without allowing ourselves to be provoked into action which would be a violation of our international obligations and which would impair the alliance of the free nations...
...more cogent reply to Knowland would have been that under present circumstances a blockade would not be an effective act of war. Knowland's proposal would have made sense when the U.S. was fighting the Chinese Communists in Korea. It may make sense at some future point, if the U.S. should undertake efforts to topple the Peking government. But a partial blockade with the goal of forcing the Reds to give up 13 prisoners is almost certain to be a fiasco. When Knowland forces the Administration to repudiate his proposals, he further weakens U.S. prestige in the Far East...
Shortly after Dirksen finished came one of the strangest performances of last or any other week. Republican Leader William Knowland announced that he had decided not to support the Watkins committee in its recommendation of censure. His argument: McCarthy's offenses had been committed before McCarthy's re-election...