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...Nevada, silver-maned old Senator Pat McCarran, who did not even bother to campaign, was an easy 3-to-1 winner in the Democratic primary. For the November election, McCarran was an odds-on favorite to defeat Republican George Marshall, a Las Vegas lawyer...
...Like That." The bill added one item denounced by the President and the State Department: Nevada Senator Pat McCarran's $62.5 million loan, with no strings attached, to Franco's Spain. The House argued over that one. Supporters saw it as buying the cooperation of Spain in event of war in Europe, and at least as morally justified as a loan to Tito. Not only New York's pinko Vito Marcantonio was disturbed by the loan; Virginia's conservative Howard Smith demanded to know what guarantee anybody had that Franco would help the West in case...
Desk-Bound Intellectuals. The Democrats, on the defensive for what was indeed a wretched record, even suffered a defection from their own ranks. Nevada's Pat McCarran, a blustery Democrat whose chief concern with foreign policy has been a single-minded drive to bring Spain into ECA, declared that the dust had settled long enough in Asia. Roared McCarran: "I am quite familiar with the doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China...
...State Department was first stunned, then furious. Nobody had told it that McCarran would bring up his bill, or that it stood a good chance of passing. State wasn't against lending Spain the money out of the Export-Import Bank, as a straight business proposition. But, like ECA, it was flatly opposed to handing Franco $100 million to do with as he pleased. Even nations like Britain, who were wartime allies, got no such favored treatment. ECA nations had been required to sign tough bilateral treaties with the U.S., to subject their spending plans to U.S. scrutiny...
Four hours later, the Senate kept it in by the same lopsided vote, and Pat McCarran confidently predicted that the House would do the same...