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...room in a mood that bristled like his dashing white mustache, promptly lit into the State Department. "A weak and confused foreign policy after Yalta," he added, ". . . is the primary cause for every international problem confronting our nation, and for every casualty we have suffered in Korea." Democrat Brien McMahon of Connecticut was lying in wait for him with quotes from Hurley's days as Roosevelt's Ambassador to China, when he was sure that the Chinese Communists were mere agrarian reformers, not tied to Moscow. (Example: "The only difference between Chinese Communists and Oklahoma Republicans is that...
...talks. The meetings all followed the same pattern. Guests arrived about 8 o'clock, were greeted cordially by the President, got a highball, and were drawn into a few hours' discussion led by the President. Among the guests were such Administration stalwarts as Connecticut's McMahon and Minnesota's Humphrey, but there were also a few unpredictable Democrats ranging from Florida's freshman Senator Smathers on the right to New York's Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. on the left...
...Unkept. But the dispassionate air of inquiry had vanished. Partisan wrangle broke out. Republicans made their questions short speeches. Democrats retorted by producing past documents to show that the Republicans had rarely lifted a voice to protest U.S. policy steps when they were taken, and Connecticut's Brien McMahon, politicking for all he was worth, and joined by Maverick Republican Wayne Morse, demanded an investigation of the "China lobby."* Acheson coolly resisted most Democratic attempts to get him to concur in attacks on MacArthur or the Republicans...
...MCMAHON: "Do you think that we are ready to withstand the Russian attack in Western Europe today...
...Passed unanimously a resolution introduced by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon to reaffirm "the historic and abiding friendship of the American people for all other peoples, including the peoples of the Soviet Union . . . The American people desire neither war with the Soviet Union nor the terrible consequences of such a war, and welcome all honorable efforts to compose the differences between them and the Soviet Government...