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California's Republican William Knowland remarked darkly: "I am fearful if at this time an iron curtain is lowered . . . then it becomes a question as to whether ... or not we do not have a responsibility to go back [to the Senate] and report that under the conditions we face we may not be able to carry out [our] obligation." Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright retorted: "I hope the Senator has not decided to sabotage or destroy this hearing simply because the evidence now being presented does not support General MacArthur...
George Marshall, like MacArthur before him, was treated with five-star deference. Only Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley got sharp and personal with him. Two other Republicans, California's Knowland and New Jersey's Smith, spent about a day strafing Marshall's 1945-46 mission to China, but were always polite about...
MARSHALL : "I don't think that had any connection with it whatsoever." Republicans Smith and Knowland were not satisfied. They wanted to hear all about Marshall's presidential mission to China in 1945-46. Had his orders been to help bring about a coalition between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalist government? asked Knowland. Said Marshall: "I was supposed primarily to bring an end to the fighting...
...Henry Cabot Lodge and Leverett Saltonstall-had broken ranks to defend Truman's right to act. If the MacArthur issue was to be broad enough to include the eastern internationalists in the G.O.P (generally more interested in Europe than Asia), such forthright Republicans as California's Bill Knowland (who favors the decisive course in both Asia and Europe) and such high & dry isolationists as Indiana's Homer Capehart and Illinois' Everett Dirksen (who frequently criticize U.S. involvement in either Korea or Europe), some changes had to be made fast. Out from Martin's office went...
Asked by California's Senator William Knowland for comment on the article, the Army at first prepared a blistering denial, point by point. But Major General Floyd Parks, Army Information chief, quashed the reply, wrote instead to Knowland that the Army considered the charges ill-considered and irresponsible, would not reply to them. It was a decision that did the Army credit: Padre Sporrer, a lieutenant commander in the regular Navy, had taken a course that would have scandalized all but the most pop-eyed columnists; there was no point in letting the incident blow up into an interservice...