ERP, the ark, built to rescue Europe from catastrophe, was launched at last. A tired, shouting Congress pushed it down the ways.
The whole job had taken a little under three months. There had been a great deal of pushing, pulling and hauling on wrong ends. At the last minute the House, at the prodding of Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin Edward O'Konski, had added Franco's fascist Spain to the list of beneficiaries. Administration and Senate leaders, appalled by this blunder which gave Communists something to shout about, had got Spain yanked out....
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