Word: pfeifer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrier at the Pyrenees. A little later Pfeifer issued a more diplomatic, but no less straightforward, formal statement: "I've been asked, what is the U.S. going to do about Spain? I think the order of the question is wrong. I don't mean to be harsh when I say Spain is a secondary problem to the U.S. The U.S., however, is a primary problem to Spain. The real question is this: 'What is Spain going to do about the United States?' Only the Spaniards themselves can answer that...
Spokesman for the group was New York's Democratic Congressman Joseph L. Pfeifer, a Brooklyn surgeon. When an impatient Spanish reporter in Madrid asked when the U.S. was going to stop talking and start doing something about Spain, Pfeifer crisply ticked off some hard facts of U.S. political life: the remarks of a few itinerant Congressmen did not mean that the U.S. as a whole was possessed of any overwhelming desire to take Dictator Franco back into the family. A committee staff member, C. B. Marshall, used stronger words: "We give loans only to governments who represent their people...
...controlled Spanish press, which had been treating touring Congressmen as if each was a cigar-chomping oracle, bottled the story up tight for 24 hours. Then Madrid's Arriba burst forth with an angry editorial which accused Pfeifer and his two companions-Democratic Congressmen Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin and Thomas S. Gordon of Illinois-of "malice and shortsightedness." What was Spain going to do about the U.S.? Cried Arriba: "The answer is simple. Nothing. We are going to do nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American...
...pounds, 216 bronze cannon, 29 mortars, 12,806 cannon balls, 30,000 rifles with bayonets and 30,000 uniforms-the uniforms that Washington's men wore after Valley Forge and the cannons that won the Battle of Saratoga.* It is thanks to these rifles and cannon that Messrs. Pfeifer and Zablocki and Gordon are American "Congressmen today...
Edwin Heister will lead the Lord Jeffs to the fray, with Art Palmer, John Bower, Bob Pfeifer, Jim Alexander, Bob Izant, Barold Still, Lee Pattison, and Bill Traver filling the ranks of the home forces...