It was the drag end of a dreary, routine day. In the House chamber, up rose Connecticut's freshman Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce to make her maiden speech. Ordinarily, in such circumstances, a new member would talk to empty seats; this time more than a third of the House remained to listen. Forty minutes later the speech was over; and an international rumpus was just beginning.
Democrats had expected a plea for aid to China; Republican Clare Luce picked a topic of perhaps greater importance: Who will rule the postwar airways? (TIME, Feb....
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