About all Texas Tom Connally had to do last week was to relax contentedly at the center of his big committee table and referee what had become almost exclusively a G.O.P. fight. In the epilogue to the late Great Debate, Republican had been set against Republican. The specific question: the Wherry resolution to bar sending troops to Europe without congressional approval.
Connally listened with bored detachment as a parade of pro-Wherry witnesses trooped to the stand ahead of the Republicans. There was the usual miscellaneous collection of Communist party-liners, pacifists, feminists. On their heels came a handful of air-power...
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