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ce el a mr Pate COMMITTEE & ck AW BFP CLIVE Us WURESS 1l sast Lith treet vm York cit! pres 9-6357 Chairman: Paul He. Appleby arnold George Hecker Stringfellow barr George Biddle Henry seidel Canby evans Clark Morris L. Cooks Norman Cousias Mark Ethridge Rendolf reltus Tea Fisdale George H. Glasegold Alan Green Willies Marlan Hale Oecar Rameerstein II Ira A. Hirschmann Gerdoer Jackson Edward D. Lindeman Merehell mecDuffie archibeld VacLeish ‘Ruth Bryaa Khode Elliot Roosevelt dames Roceevelt Cuarles Rose Harry Louis Selden Marshall XK. Skadden Miehsel Straight Rathen Streus Vineent £. Sutlirf Telforé Teyler Walter -slker “ Qammer “elles Campaign Lirectors: Mburice Rosenblatt George E. Agree June 30, 1952 Kobert -. -herwood ALL INFORMATION cut RKEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED coy DATE GLIO SPO BY Gldezesfore. BA The importance: of the -enute in tae shaping and conduct of American foreign policy is now too obvious to need @leboration. shat is not so obvious in that Senate op~ position to constructive policies hag been based not so wach on seriously developed alternative hypotheses ag on negative and someties irresponsible ebetructionisa, Lear Friends Senterity has gives Senators like McKellar of Tennessee aod Byrd of Virginia extreordinary power to (frustrate essential legislation. Almost without exception, Byrd bag voted to cut or crip le every foreign aid bill pre- sented to the Senste since 1917 — The Greek-Turkish aid iii, the BE. C. A., Poimt IV, etc. eKellar —- the only Senator whoee tenare, as well as state of minc, pre-dates the first World Way ~~ has wielded an equally implacable axe as Chairmen of the purse-powerful Appropriations Comaittee, whieh passes on every governsent expenditure from aail boxes to wutual <ecurity. For many years, ousting these sen bes B@R Considered impossible because of tneir contrel of the party aschinery in Seuthera states where the venocratis noaination is tentemcuat to election. ‘This year, however, strong oppesition to both has developed within the ranks of their own party — creating a real epportanity ‘or our Comittee to give sonstructive assiatesce, In Virginia, erry Ryrd is in @ primary Cignt ior nis political life against Colonel !rencis Pickens diller. Willer, s former intelligence officer on Geaeral tisen- hower's staff at sHAE?, is the leader of s group of couregecen and public-epirited Yirginiens who have been working aince the war to break the stranglehold of the Byrd machine on Virginia politics. Closer to victory in esch successive cespaign, and seen Im Tennessee, McKellar is being Gnallenged by s vigorous and able young Congress half his age — hh year-old Albert dere.