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Said California's William Knowland: "If Communism is a global menace, which it is, then it must be met on a global basis. We cannot expect [Western Europe] to build an army that would make Europe impregnable to Communist aggression before we place an additional man or dollar on the Continent." Knowland had his own formula for U.S. participation in the North Atlantic armyone American division for every six European divisions, until there...
...they said. "If this principle [of a civilian Secretary] is violated once," thundered California's William Knowland, "it will be a case of the camel getting his nose under the tent."† Ohio's Taft added two other points: General Marshall, almost 70, was not up to the grueling assignment; the appointment of Marshall was "a reaffirmation of the tragic policy of this Administration in encouraging Chinese Communism." Taft was talking about Marshall's mission to China in 1946 to effect a truce between the Nationalists and the Reds-an errand that, though doomed from the start...
...Enquirer was bought by Hearst in 1922 for a reputed half-million dollars. He consolidated it with the Oakland Daily Post, which he had started in 1917, banking on the industrial growth of Oakland. Oakland grew, all right, but so did the Post-Enquirer's formidable rival, Joseph Knowland's* Oakland Tribune (TIME...
...Father of California's Senator William F. Knowland...
Republicans on the committee (Hicken-looper, Millikin, Knowland and Bricker) in voting...