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ARMED FORCES Cut-Rate Defense "The day is coming," said Chairman Brien McMahon of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week, "when the quantity of atomic weapons we are capable of making could be sufficient, beyond any question, to serve as a paramount instrument of victory." Within three years, he told the Senate, atomic bombs could be flowing into the stockpiles at mass-production speed, each one costing less than a heavy tank (about $200,000). By concentrating on the atomic weapons, said McMahon, the U.S. could safely cut back its conventional defenses and buy security for half...
...days when the dove was really flapping, his prize victim was Henry Wallace, who pleaded that the Russians were misunderstood and that "the tougher we get, the tougher the Russians get." Others confusedly offered plans for "proving" the U.S. meant no offense. Example: Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon's proposal for atomic disarmament in return for a $50 billion program of global aid, to include the Russians...
Just when cooler heads in the Administration had about decided to forget the whole thing, up jumped Connecticut's Democratic Brien McMahon last week to wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...
...What McMahon was pointing at was the so-called "China Lobby." He had issued his lookout's cry once before, during the MacArthur hearing, when the Republicans were blasting the Administration's Far East policy. McMahon had countered with dark charges of the sinister efforts of a "China Lobby" to draw the U.S. into Chiang Kai-shek's camp...
...McMahon-Morse resolution will probably not get far. Last week Foreign Relations committeemen took off for Europe to look into the foreign-aid program. They still have to get out a bill on the program. A number of McMahon's colleagues indicated a singular lack of interest. This is unfortunate, since McMahon's dragon will just be left out in the tall grass, there to flourish on fiction, undisturbed by fact...