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...long-established policy of publishing official documents of historic interest about 15 years after the event. When the Republicans arrived in Washington in 1953, they began to apply pressure to hurry up the release date on the Yalta papers. On Capitol Hill California's Senator William Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges were particularly insistent. Bridges' Appropriations Committee authorized special funds, and last summer the State Department's historical division began to compile and declassify the documents...
Looking at the problem with a different perspective, Senate Republican Leader Knowland struck another note that would impress many readers of the Yalta papers. Said he: "If the disclosures dis courage two or three nations from thinking they can sit down behind closed doors -with no responsibility to their elected representatives and to the people-and proceed to parcel out nations and people without their consent, they will have served their purpose. Whether it be at Yalta. Potsdam or Geneva, a useful purpose will be served if every official who participates in negotiations realizes that he has an ultimate accounting...
...speech, Nixon exacted the sweet and subtle vengeance of polite politics. "We can't afford petty quarrels," he said. Then, with the gentleness of a new razor blade, he named and praised outstanding California Republicans. He had something good to say about U.S. Senators William F. Knowland and Thomas H. Kuchel; he mentioned former Governor (now U.S. Chief Justice) Earl Warren. But never once did he utter the name of Goodwin J. Knight. There was only a passing reference to "our present governor...
...make a deal: he would split the costs of preparing the texts if the Times would cut in the Trib. When Catledge refused. Maxwell went after the text himself. He told his Washington bureau to stir up Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen. who, in turn, asked Republican Minority Leader William Knowland to protest about the State Department's "plan to 'leak' the text to one favored Eastern newspaper...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, said that the publication of the papers may have been a move instigated by senator Knowland and other rightwing leaders to prevent high level negotiations of the China problem by making all such negotiations appear disreputable...