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...most of Morse's torrent of abuse dealt with the same excerpts from Mrs. Luce's old political speeches (the latest from 1952) that he had attacked earlier at the committee hearing, especially her "lied us into war" remark about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Morse's case against that one sentence, spoken 15 years ago, sprawled over 17 small-print three-column pages in the Congressional Record. He called the remark "subversive," "evil," "sinister," "untruthful," "hysterical" and "unpatriotic...
Comic Relief. The day after Morse's speech, Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
...comedy done, the Senate finally-after a debate that took up some 65,000 words in the Congressional Record-got around to confirming Clare Luce as Ambassador to Brazil. The vote: a lopsided 79 (33 Republicans, 46 Democrats) to 11 (all Democrats...
...Vendetta Politics." That same day, sensing the results that would flow from Morse's attacks on his wife, Henry R. Luce issued a statement. "For 25 years in the course of her public life," said he, "my wife has taken not only the criticisms provoked by her own views and actions but also many punches which were really intended for me or for the publications of which I am editor in chief. The attack of Senator Wayne Morse is perhaps the most vitriolic example of this." Mrs. Luce, he recalled, had offered to resign after TIME became a factor...
...Luce's mission to Brazil, said her husband, "has now been profoundly compromised." There is a question "whether she can now hope to accomplish the delicate mission assigned to her by the President in a climate of uneasiness which the smears and suspicions have created . . . Senator Wayne Morse and others have devoted themselves to undermining Mrs. Luce's usefulness. Senator Morse happens to be the chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee, which has cognizance of inter-American affairs and Brazil...