Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the start the open hearing was unexpectedly rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used...
Switching to Italy, Morse accused the witness of having used her influence as U.S. ambassador to try to get the Italian government to change its oil policy and let private capital into oil exploration and development. Said Mrs. Luce: "I was the instrument of my country's policy. I had no private policy of my own, and certainly I had no oil policy of my own ... I tried, as my predecessor had tried ... to persuade the Italians that they would be far better off if they would develop their own subsoil riches, and that this could be most quickly...
...honest? Is she reliable? I am satisfied that Mrs. Luce does not meet either criterion...
...There is nothing in her record to indicate to me that Mrs. Luce is qualified to be a diplomat . . . The role for which I believe she is well qualified is that of political hatchetman; she does very well at making inflammatory and demagogic political speeches; she and her husband contribute heavily to the Republican coffers. And for this she is being rewarded with an ambassadorship...
...most of Morse's torrent of abuse dealt with the same excerpts from Mrs. Luce's old political speeches (the latest from 1952) that he had attacked earlier at the committee hearing, especially her "lied us into war" remark about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Morse's case against that one sentence, spoken 15 years ago, sprawled over 17 small-print three-column pages in the Congressional Record. He called the remark "subversive," "evil," "sinister," "untruthful," "hysterical" and "unpatriotic...