Legislators

While endorsing plans to build up the Air Force to 66 groups, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall told the Senate Appropriations Committee that an enemy nation does not need a large fleet to seize bases in Alaska or the Azores from which to attack the United States by air. From: Beth Gore

President Harry S. Truman holds up the North Atlantic Pact which he signed. Standing behind President Truman are: Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, Senator Scott Lucas, Senator Tom Connally, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

Paul Porter (right), former Federal Communications Commission Chairman and Office of Price Administration Chief, reviewing papers with former Governor of New York Herbert Lehman, prior to testifying on the Marshall Plan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From: Beth Gore

Paul Porter, recently returned from an inspection tour of Greece for President Truman, shown reporting his findings to Rep. Charles A. Eaton, (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. From: Beth Gore

Photo of Senator Claude Pepper of Florida who had just introduced a bill in the Senate asking for a full lunch hour for the Senators. Said the Senator, as it now stands "we can eat only with the fear that some of the Senators are passing some bill behind our backs." From: Beth Gore

Candid photos of Edwin W. Pauley, millionaire California oilman and special assistant to Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall, taken at a Congressional committee where Pauley was called to answer charges that he is a "gambler" in the commodity market. From: Beth Gore

Senator David I. Walsh, Massachusetts, Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, talks with Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, who has been nominated for Under Secretary of the Navy. From: Beth Gore.

Photo of former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson as he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in favor of administration to strengthen the powers of the Secretary of Defense and unification of the Armed Forces. From: Beth Gore.

Photo of Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson testifying before the Senate War Contract Investigating Committee. Representative Andrew J. May (D-KY) on three occasions interceded for the Garsson industrial munitions "paper empire". Patterson has ordered the funds of the "paper empire" frozen to "protect" the Government. From: Beth Gore.

Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson urged the House Military Affairs Committee to speed action on a bill to establish a nine-man commission to control domestic research in the development of atomic energy. Atomic energy, Patterson declared, is too big for any one government agency to handle, and the War Department wants to be relieved of its responsibility. Photo shows left to right, Rep. Andrew J. May (D-KY) Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, and Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. From: Beth Gore.