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DML COMMITTEE § ck AM BFP CLIVE UsIWGhESS: e. 11 ast ith weet vm York citp} rlese 9-6357 Chairsan: Paul H. Appleby Thurman srnold George ecker Stringfellow barr George Biddle Henry Seidel Canby evans Clark Deorge H. Combs Morris L. Cooks Norman Cousins Thomas H. Flict Mark Ethridgs Bendolf reltus Toa Fisdale George H. Glasegold Alan Green Willies Harlan Hale Oscar Hameerstein II Alvin H. Hansen Ire A. Hirechaaan Gerdoer Jackson Mira. Albert D. Lasker Edward D. Lindessn Marshell MeoDuffie archibeléd vecLeish Robert BR. Nathan Ceerge X. Outland Ruth Bryas khode Elliot Roosevelt dames Rocesvelt Cuarles Rose Sidney H. Schuer Harry Louis Selden Wershall K. Skadden Wieheel Straight Rethen Strees Vincent £. Sutliff Telforé Teyler Walter -alker “ Summer “elles Campaign Virectors: maurice Rosendlatt George E. Agree Robert -. June 30, 1952 sherwood ALL INFORMATION cone HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ih iear Friends var Gz0/6 3 Lbde Zee sfete fp The importance: of the -ente in tre shaping and conduct of American {foreign policy is now too obvious to need @lsboration, what is not so obvious in that Senate op- Position to constructive policies has been based not so wach on seriously developed alternative hypotheses as on magative and someti.es irresponsible ebetructionisa, Senterity has givea Senators like licXeller of Tesasssee and Byrd of Virginia extreordinary power to frustrate essential legislation. Almost without exception, Byrd bas voted to cut or crip le every foreign aid bill pre- sented te the Senite since 1917 — te Greek-Turkish aid i411, the E. C. A., Poiat IV, etc. seKellar — the only Senator whose tenure, a8 well as state of ming, pre-dates the faret World Yar — has wielded an equally implacable axe as Chairman of the purse-powerful Appropriations Comaittes, whieh passes on every government expenditure from msil boxes to witual security. For many years, ousting these nen has been considered impossible becsuse of their contre] of the party mechinery in Southera states where the Venccratic noaination is tentamouat to election. this year, hovever, strong oppeaition to both has developed within the ranks of their own party — creating « real epportanity {or our Comittee to give eonstructive assiate-we, In Virginia, -arry Ryré is in @ primary fignt ior nis political life sgainst Colonel trancis Pickens uiller. © former intelligence officer on Ceasral tisen- hower's staff at sHAry, is the leader of s group of Couregeoun and public-spirited Yirginiens who have been Working since the war to bresk the stranglehold of the Byrd machine om Virginia politics. Closer to victory is each suscessive caspaign, and seen Primary will be held daly 15th, aad an expected 260,000 voted will be cast. Byrd shows signs of ‘ruming soared.* In Tennessee, Mofellar is being Gnallenged by 3 vigorous and able young Congress half his age —~ hh year-old Albert Gere. ith a fine record in tne .ouse on foreign