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New Dealing Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois uprose to demand that Winston Churchill fire Lyttelton immediately. Next day British Ambassador Halifax called at the State Department to offer the official apologies of his Government, and Minister Lyttelton spoke his personal apologies in the House of Commons. Manfully refusing to claim...
The President's message applied to the Soldiers' Voting bill passed by the Senate last December, and approved by the House Elections Committee last fortnight. Under this bill, which leaves the whole matter of soldier voting to the states, the President charged that "the vast majority" of the...
*The Lucas-Green bill was actually an amendment to the original Soldier Voting Law of 1942, an unworkable measure which, by giving all individuals in the Armed Services the right to vote, specifically abolished poll-tax restrictions.
Something Will Be Done. Back to Capitol Hill came Illinois's Scott Lucas with a rewritten version of the bill which he stubbornly defended for six days last month. He was now ready to be sweetly reasonable toward the equally stubborn Republicans who had fought his bill. This time...
Republicans did not press forward with endorsements. But most of them seemed as sweetly reasonable as Scott Lucas. Said G.O.P. House Leader Joe Martin, giving soldier vote legislation first place on his Congressional "must" list: "The States will do all they can . . . but there is need for some assistance from...