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...escalation by major Western powers took on the character of an international rate war, much to the damage of prosperity in Britain and West Germany. Hoping for what he called "a measure of disarmament in interest rates," British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan met for a Saturday-Sunday session at Chequers, the Buckinghamshire country residence of British Prime Ministers, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and the finance chiefs of Germany, France and Italy. Their aim: coordinated reduction of interest rates in the U.S. and Europe. They agreed, Callaghan reported last week, that "interest rates are too high...
...tired and we's taking a break. Looks like wall-posters for the duration of inter session...
McCormack's most palpable failure so far this session came in his handling of the Adam Clayton Powell affair. Deeply averse to any break with precedent, he unsuccessfully resisted both the Democratic-caucus move to strip Powell of his committee chairmanship, and the full House action to take away his seat pending a formal investigation. McCormack's stand particularly irritated young, liberal Congressmen, who have been increasingly unhappy about the Speaker's intractably traditionalist position. What McCormack failed to consider was that many a colleague was under heavy pressure from constituents to chastise the flamboyant Negro Congressman...
McCormack remains a dedicated spokesman for his party's legislative program; he deserves great credit for the mammoth outpouring of Great Society legislation in the 89th Congress. Since the last session, however, he has grown noticeably more emaciated, irascible and heedless of the mood of Congress. After McCormack's defeat on the floor vote that took away Powell's seat, California Democrat Lionel Van Deerlin, a leader of the movement to discipline the Harlem Representative, approached McCormack to explain his action. The Speaker turned away with a disgusted "humph...
Thunderclap of Ayes. The 90th Congress' crushing consensus was evident from the start of the session. The first move was up to the Democrats, and aging Speaker John McCormack declared himself opposed to any disciplinary action. But he quickly ran into a buzz saw of revolt. Liberals led by Morris Udall of Arizona, brother of Interior Secretary Stewart, angrily told the Speaker of constituent pressure to do something about Powell. Shouted Udall: "I've got to go back to my people!" Insisted McCormack: "We shouldn...