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Last week, before the Watkins report was issued (but when he surely knew its tone), Majority Leader William Knowland announced that the Senate will not be called back to face the censure question until Nov. 8, six days after the elections. Postponing the call until then, said Knowland, will permit the Senate to act "in an atmosphere free from pre-election tensions." Some Democrats immediately attacked this decision as a move to shield Republicans from the necessity of taking a stand on McCarthy until after the elections. But there is no doubt that the Senate will be able to exercise...
WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, Senate majority leader, in Collier...
...Wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Knowland, stating once again his belief that there is nothing to be gained by breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia, as Knowland had demanded (TIME. Sept. 13) after Soviet jets shot down the Navy patrol plane off Siberia. Presidential aides said that Ike was miffed because Knowland had thoughtlessly-or deliberately-released the text of the telegram before it even reached...
...shot down last week by an (official) enemy. Nonetheless, a U.S. plane was shot down by Russian fighters in the Japan Sea, 40 miles (by U.S. count) outside Soviet territorial waters. The U.S. State Department sent Moscow a note calling the attack "wanton and unprovoked." Republican Senate Leader William Knowland said that the U.S. should break off diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. because of the plane incident...
...last week was what could have been expected from weary, uninspired, somewhat scared men. Tempers flared in the Senate one midnight when Majority Leader Knowland tried to postpone the final farm-bill vote, and when South Carolina's Olin Johnston tried to attach a civil-service pay raise to California's Santa Maria River project. But in the last minute helter-skelter, it was remarkable that the Communist outlaw bill (see below) was the only piece of political deviltry to be jammed into enactment...