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The Senate Stamps on its Dignity

It was not, all things considered, a week calculated to make life easy for defenders of the U.S. Senate. The low point in the Senate’s performance came at week’s end, in the aftermath of the Norman suicide [see editorial, p. 368]: after three days of unparalleled vilification of one of the Senate’s most respected committees by a foreign government and by practically all of the U.S. press, not a single Senator who was not a member of the group under fire had raised his voice in defense of the Internal Security Subcommittee. But the Senate, plainly, was in no mood for heroics—as witness its action, a few days earlier, in confirming the promotion of Ralph Zwicker by a landslide vote.

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The Senate Stamps on its Dignity

It was not, all things considered, a week calculated to make life easy for defenders of the U.S. Senate. The low point in the Senate’s performance came at week’s end, in the aftermath of the Norman suicide [see editorial, p. 368]: after three days of unparalleled vilification of one of the Senate’s most respected committees by a foreign government and by practically all of the U.S. press, not a single Senator who was not a member of the group under fire had raised his voice in defense of the Internal Security Subcommittee. But the Senate, plainly, was in no mood for heroics—as witness its action, a few days earlier, in confirming the promotion of Ralph Zwicker by a landslide vote.