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...three weeks Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, an ancient knight on a spavined horse, had roared accusations at David Lilienthal in Washington. His arena was the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee, which was holding hearings on Lilienthal's fitness to head the Atomic Energy Commission. McKellar was not a committee member, but the Republican majority politely let him have...
...Czechoslovakia is under the domination of Russia," the 78-year-old McKellar whooped in triumph...
Republicans, who control the Senate, did not seem to be listening. The whole thing, it seemed, might subside; McKellar would clump off on his moth-eaten charger and Lilienthal would be confirmed. Then, last week, something happened...
Southern Democrats also rode the wind: McKellar's colleague from Tennessee, Tom Stewart, a stooge of Memphis' Boss Crump; Louisiana's John Overton, who had defended Theodore Bilbo six weeks ago; Texas' rambunctious Pappy O'Daniel...
...time for Republicans to stop and ask themselves seriously just what the party proposes to do with its new power. ... It has no mandate to return to a now irrecoverable past of blind isolationism, narrow prejudice, obedience to this or that hidden pressure or influence, the whole McKellar brand of demagoguery. ... It is the party leadership which is now meeting the first tests of public opinion...