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Relative to your article, "Abdication on the Hill" [Nov. 29], wherein you state that Senate Majority Leader Knowland "Displays no obligation toward the President or the party as a whole," may I inquire if it has ever occurred to you that Senator Knowland just might place our country, and his obligation to the people, above party...
...must have nodded in your ivory tower when, for Nov. 29, in discussing Senator Knowland's warning of the dangers of coexistence, you said: "He blatantly disregarded the fact that he is not 'any Senator.' He is the majority leader, who is supposed to represent the Administration on Capitol Hill...
Again quoting your story, "In 1944, long-suffering Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to castigate Franklin Roosevelt's veto of the tax bill. He resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example." The afternoon the veto reached the Senate, my brother, the late Senator Bennett Champ Clark, and his deskmate and close friend, Senator Byrd, called upon Senator Barkley . . . When Senator Barkley arose in the Senate to make the speech that ended with his resignation, he had already been assured by Senators Byrd and Clark that they...
Senate Leader. Two years ago, before the late Robert A. Taft claimed the majority leadership. Bill Knowland brashly announced his own candidacy for the post. Then, during his fatal illness, Taft appointed him acting majority leader. Helen Knowland foresaw her husband's difficulty as majority leader. Wrote she: "He's never had to compromise, but he'll have to now, and that will be hard work. Billy will need a new technique." Billy tried compromise and met with some notable failures (e.g., last winter's Bricker Amendment wrangle...
...Knowland has voted with the Administration on domestic matters, but has veered farther and farther away on foreign policy. His emphasis on Asia has been a wholesome influence until recently, when it has been carried beyond all bounds of practicality. Whether his foreign policy position led him to support of McCarthy is not clear-probably not even to Bill Knowland. What is clear is that he destroyed his chance of becoming mere than a nominal party leader when he deserted his own appointees on the Watkins committee. There will be no serious move to replace Knowland; he will simply continue...