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This point of view has picked up some powerful spokesmen, including men like Senator Knowland and many of his Mid-Western Senate colleagues. It is not surprising, therefore, that the guiding heads of the "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice," Lieut. Gen. Stratemeyer, and Rear Admiral Crommelin, both favored the widening of the Korean War against China. They and other McCarthy supporters have found themselves opposed by the Administration and by the majority of the American people...
Tentacles & Toes. When Republican Leader William Knowland announced that Watkins wanted to make a few routine changes in the printer's copy of the committee report, McCarthy was on his toes, snarling objections. "Highly improper," he cried, although he knew such changes are more the rule than the exception...
...week long pro-McCarthy Senators, e.g., Illinois' Everett Dirksen and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...
Late Republican comebacks in Massachusetts and Montana seemed to invalidate Democratic predictions of control of the Senate. Earlier in the evening Democrats had estimated that they would have at least 49 seats, but at press time the elections were so close that Senate Majority Leader Knowland reported a Republican majority...
...will be able to institute needed measures that were quite forgotten by the 83rd Congress, such as revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and a realistic immigration policy. More important, they will be able to organize both Houses--to replace as majority leaders such arch-isolationists as Senator William Knowland and Representative Joseph Martin. And publicity-happy demagogues like McCarthy, Jenner, and Velde will lose their chairmanships. The security program would proceed with more sense and less sensation. Two years ago, the Republicans came into office saying it was "time for a change." The nation has seen the change...