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...Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, sponsor of the Administration bill to admit 240,000 refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries, asked the President to lend a hand in the hard-fought battle to get the bill reported out against the stubborn opposition of Nevada's Pat McCarran and Idaho's Herman Welker. Ike invited Watkins and McCarran to the White House, flatly turned down McCarran's compromise proposal to admit 124,000 refugees. Bolstered, Watkins went back to Capitol Hill and got a Judiciary Committee majority (not including McCarran) to agree to hold an evening session "until...
Beclouded Aim. When the bill first came before Watkins' immigration subcommittee two months ago, McCarran promptly demanded a ten-day delay of the hearings while he took his wife to the Mayo Clinic. Watkins was willing. Then McCarran wandered on to Los Angeles, began holding hearings on another subject, and blandly asked Watkins for three more weeks' delay. He was refused, and the immigration hearings began-over the roaring protests of Idaho's Welker. Then, three weeks ago, at a meeting of the parent Judiciary Committee, Pat made his slickest move-a resolution calling for further delay...
...explosive meeting, some Senators were close to fisticuffs. "Sit down and shut up!" North Dakota's Bill Langer shouted when McCarran, with obstruction in his Wedgwood eyes, started to talk. When Illinois' Everett Dirksen voted with the majority, Herman Welker was bitter. "The Senator from Illinois need never call on me to speak for his campaign committee," he snarled. "This is politics and nothing but politics. It is intended to elect Saltonstall, Ferguson and Hendrickson . . .* When I say where I stand, I stand up." Then Welker stood up. Then he sat down. Dirksen smiled faintly...
Supreme Test. Pat & Herman next tried a new tactic-stretching out the hearings indefinitely with a parade of witnesses. Through the week, Watkins' Job-like patience finally outlasted Pat & Herman. This week the bill comes before the Judiciary Committee in what will be the supreme test of McCarran's strength and influence in the committee he bossed for so long. The bill will probably squeeze through, but on the Senate floor Watkins still faces a violent battle before the gates can open for the 240,000 aliens...
...Washington, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. waived the restrictions of the McCarran Act for a Russian chess team, including World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, which will arrive in Manhattan this week for a four-day match with top U.S. players...