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...case for Spain as a potential naval base and a possible beachhead for the Army in case of a Russian blitz on Western Europe. Last week this argument was enough to win Franco a fat $100 million loan from the U.S. Senate. When Nevada's white-haired Pat McCarran, who had once enjoyed Franco's hospitality, brought up his perennial resolution to give Spain a big slice of Marshall Plan money, he found the Senate surprisingly receptive. Administration leaders managed to keep the money from coming out of ECA's pockets, but could not stop the bill...
...determined bipartisan majority listened but was not impressed. When voting began, it doggedly beat down one McCarran proposal after another: by prearrangement, a Democrat would answer one amendment, a Republican the next. McCarran tried to cut the total number of admissible D.P.s, to swamp the D.P. quotas by making eligible 8,000,000 Germans expelled from Iron Curtain countries, to keep discriminatory requirements against Jews and Catholics, to ban all D.P. admissions when there are more than 4,000,000 U.S. unemployed or more than 2,000,000 families living doubled...
When the final vote came, the weary Senate had been in session for close to 13 hours, had heard some 130 amendments offered. There had been 20 roll calls, an alltime record for a single day. Just before midnight, the Senate rejected the last McCarran proposal, adopted the Kilgore substitute bill by a vote of 49 to 25, then passed...
...Wandering Homeless. The new bill, similar to one adopted by the House last year, would extend the D.P. program until mid-1951. It would admit 359,000 (instead of 320.000 in McCarran's bill) of the world's homeless. It made eligible 5,000 Italians dislodged from the Trieste area taken over by Yugoslavia, 18,000 members of General Anders' Polish army now in Britain, 10,000 Greeks made homeless by civil war, and some 4,000 White Russians who fled from Communist-held Shanghai to the Philippines. Provision was made to admit 54,744 Germans expelled...
...eligible cutoff date to qualify as a D.P. was advanced from Dec. 22, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1949, thus giving a chance to refugees from postwar pogroms and Communist persecutions, and the requirements that 40% of all admissions be Baits and 30% be farmers were struck off. Despite Pat McCarran, the U.S. at last was about to do a little more for the world's helpless, as both parties' platforms had long pledged themselves...