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...real trouble with the Russians, the President told Krock, is that they are still suffering from a complex of fear and inferiority where the U.S. is concerned. If a campaign had not been in progress in 1948, he would have sent Chief Justice Vinson to try to straighten out Stalin and the other Russian leaders on this and on our real intentions. Maybe that will be the thing to do some time. But in nothing must we show any sign of weakness, because there is none in our attitude...
...magazine." Mr. Field tells me that he did not say this, nor would it be accurate if he had. In the first place, the three or four remarks by Rodell which we considered unjustified and unfair were not all directed at Frankfurter; one at least was aimed at Vinson. It is true that Justice Frankfurter is an old friend of mine, but it is also true that he has been criticized many times in the Nation . . . What Mr. Rodell implies by the word "afford" I cannot easily imagine. Does Mr. Rodell perhaps think that Justice Frankfurter subsidizes the Nation...
...Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, will not support the three-year extension of the present draft law urged by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, he disclosed in a recent telegram to the CRIMSON...
...United Press story revealed yesterday that Johnson recently told President Truman a three-year addition to the draft is "essential" to national security. Vinson, in a telegram received earlier this month, expressed confidence that Congress would not extend...
Last summer House and Senate armed services committees expressed confidence that the extension would be granted. Vinson's telegram and the New York on the oath are "prosecution and punishment under the appropriate laws of the United States...