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...hasty postwar demobilization, for "failing to recognize the true aims and methods" of Soviet Russia, for giving the Kremlin "a green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa." Snapped Democrat Tom Connally: "A document of complaint and quarrelsomeness." Added Connecticut's Brien McMahon: "These masters of hindsight seek to cut themselves in on the victories of our foreign policy and to divorce themselves from our defeats . . . The record shows that more than one-half of the Republican party has vigorously opposed ... the Greek-Turkish, EGA and Atlantic Pact policies...
...Gordon Dean, the man Truman had just appointed AEC chairman. Wilson said that the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy under Connecticut's Senator Brien Mc-Mahon was trying to become "a super board of directors," and argued that Dean, who was formerly a law partner of McMahon's, had neither the ability nor the inclination to resist political interference...
...policymaker, he is not regarded as the equal of David E. Lilienthal, who resigned the chairmanship in February after guiding AEC through its first tough three years. Nor is he considered as competent as outspoken Commissioner Sumner T. Pike, a Republican, who was renominated last week only after Brien McMahon assured the Senate that the President would not name Pike as chairman...
Under Lilienthal and the acting chairmanship of Pike, AEC had withstood political pressures fairly well, worked as the ally rather than the captive of McMahon's congressional committee. Now it might find its independence harder to keep...
Partisan Pitches. Once they had wound up, the subcommittee's three Democrats -Maryland's Millard Tydings, Rhode Island's Theodore Green and Connecticut's Brien McMahon-got in a few unmistakably partisan pitches. Straight-faced, they recommended the appointment of a twelve-man nonpartisan commission to go over the loyalty ground again, "human nature being what it is, particularly in an election year." Then they needled Republican members Bourke B. Hickenlooper and Henry Cabot Lodge (who did not sign the report) for not attending sessions regularly, adding that Hickenlooper had read through only nine...