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...After pressure from church and civic groups and an effective four-minute speech by Sam Rayburn, the House finally passed, without strings...
...wasted effort. Before a vote was taken, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas' bald epicenter of respectability, stepped gravely down from his rostrum for one of his rare appeals to the House. Rayburn said nothing flashy, but his prestige wrapped dignity around his homilies. He reminded his colleagues that they lived in dangerous times, recalled the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan and warned them that the hungry fall easy prey to Communism. "We need friends in this world today as we never needed them before," he said. "I am for ... this bill because I think it will help us from...
...Rayburn spoke only four minutes. His voice was pitched at an almost conversational tone. But his little talk brought an overwhelming 211-to-13 vote for debate. Next day, Cox made a desperate effort to emasculate the bill with amendments, was beaten only 135 to 103. Not all the debate was pitched to Rayburn's appeal to selfishness; Republican Congressman Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, said: "This is a case where what our hearts prompt us to do coincides with what is in the interest of our country, world order and peace, to do." The vote...
...action. So were many people who saw no reason why Communist China, with famine on its own hands, should harvest a psychological victory by supplying India with grain, while the U.S., which has a wheat surplus, was denying it to a nation in need. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who can control Southern Democrats like Cox when he has to, ordered him to get busy...
Yielding a point himself, Rayburn offered a compromise. Instead of an outright gift, the U.S. would lend India $190 million on easy terms to buy the necessary 2,000,000 long tons of grain. The terms would be left up to ECA (probably 35 years to pay at 2½% interest), and India could repay the loan in strategic materials such as monazite (a source of fissionable thorium), jute and manganese...