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...many soldiers since World War II. Every evening, swarms of shouting, jostling officers and G.I.s from every branch of the service -paratroopers, artillerymen, medics, engineers-roamed the streets and filled the gambling palaces. The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood. Then the planes stopped coming in, the khaki-clad Army abruptly vanished. Out on the desert, 65 miles away, 5.000 hand-picked troops were getting their final briefing before Exercise Desert Rock-the G.I.'s introduction to atomic warfare...
...designed to prevent ex-government employees from becoming influence peddlers, forbid men who have left the service within two years from dealing with government agencies. Members of the Hoover Commission, Selective Service, Defense Production and Civil Defense Agencies receive exemptions from the statutes with no trouble. But Senator Pat McCarran, head of Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to exempt the Nimitz Commission. Senator McCarran felt that the Security question is sole property of the Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Senator McCarran, which supervises enforcement of the McCarran Bill...
...Senator McCarran has his reasons for quashing an examination that would jeopardize his position of ringmaster in the anti-subversive circus. His subcommittee has merely relit the old McCarthy charges against the State Department, and the result has been smoke rather than light. By eliminating the Nimitz Commission, Senator McCarran prolongs the security confusion in the best interests of Senator McCarran...
...Senator Pat McCarran...
When asked what he thought of Senator McCarthy and the McCarran committee, Chafee said "There's more than one to blame. I see no reason for singling out any specific individual ... The Senate itself must take appropriate action (such as) assessing the member a sum of money to compensate victims of his baseless accusations. This should sometimes be done whether a man is expelled...