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...Ohioan's speech were a solitary incident, it would not merit comment, but there seems to be a concentrated effort to line up Congress and the people behind a program of aid and comfort to Franco. Senator Pat McCarran is currently touring Europe, trying to see how relations with Spain can be improved; an American naval delegations recently visited the Caudillo, gave a big show for Spanish government officials, and was warmly received...
Taft does not favor direct military or economic aid to Franco, as does McCarran, but feels that Spain "is in a key military position as far as Europe is concerned." Although he voted against the Atlantic Pact and arms aid to Pact nations, he envisions Spain as a base for American troops and airborne counter-attacks. Other senators are allured by its potential market for U. S. cotten and grains...
...session long, McCarran had bottled up in his Judiciary Committee the liberalized D.P. bill which the Administration was determined to push through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such old Un-American Activities Committee favorites as Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, baying off onto the subject of spies in the U.N. secretariat. McCarran was in a hurry to admit only one set of immigrants: 250 sheepherders to solve a labor shortage in his own state of Nevada...
Visiting Democrat. Majority Leader Lucas offered McCarran one last chance to report out some kind of D.P. bill-even if it was the shabby bill which McCarran himself had proposed." When would he be ready? Replied Pat: "Probably not before next May." Well, what if the committee reported out the McCarran bill anyhow? Pat hit the ceiling. "I would be forced to oppose my own bill," he roared. "I have been gathering a lot of material on this question for weeks. I have enough to fill the Congressional Record from now to next Christmas...
...agreed. Six Republicans and six Democrats agreed to file a motion to order a D.P. bill out of the Judiciary Committee. If successful, it would be the first time a bill had been pried out of a Senate committee since 1932. It would also be the first real setback McCarran and McKellar had met since they set out to crack the whip over the Senate...