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Tread & Needle. That brought California's Senator William Knowland to his feet. Foster Dulles had sent him a letter signed by Grew, Armour and Gibson, recommending an accompanying list of prospects for diplomatic posts. On the list: Chip Bohlen, as Ambassador to Moscow. The letter and memo were classified documents and could not be read on the floor, said Knowland, but they clearly recommended Bohlen...
...natural opening for the measured tread of the man from Wisconsin: Joe McCarthy. Said he, in a quiet voice: "I think [Dirksen] is a fairly good security risk, and I think he should be allowed to see the letter, so that there may be no question about it." Knowland, flushed, shouted: "I do not know whether the Senator from Wisconsin is suggesting that my veracity should be questioned on the floor of the Senate . . . This is the first time that has happened ... I am serving as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, and I would not misrepresent . . . the facts...
...McCarthy said that there was no need for Knowland to "become so excited"; Everett Dirksen was quick to purr that he had "no desire to see the letter." But McCarthy needled on. Didn't Knowland think something should be done to check further on Gibson's position? Said an exasperated Knowland: "When a letter comes to the Senate from the Department of State, from a responsible officer of that department, I do not want to have to call in a handwriting expert to determine whether a forgery has been committed. If we have so destroyed confidence...
...President declined to back a proposal made by California's Senator Bill Knowland to name Russia as an aggressor in Korea. When a reporter mentioned Joe McCarthy's opposition to Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow, Eisenhower backed Bohlen's nomination. He went on record against New York's Daniel Reed on a tax cut, and against Senator John W. Bricker's proposed constitutional amendment to limit the treatymaking power...
...hostility ranged in degree. Michigan's Homer Ferguson and California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...