National Affairs: The Boy Scouts

. . . Down the horn

Of her ear-trumpet I convey

The news that: "It is Judgment Day!"

"Speak louder; I don't catch, my dear."

I roared: "It is the Trump we hear!"

"The What?"—"The T R U M P!" . . .

"I shall complain—

Those boy-scouts practising again!"

Solo for Ear-Trumpet, by Edith Sitwell

Joe McCarthy's most articulate enemies, the Fair Dealers, always leave the impression that they will do anything in their power to see that Joe gets his comeuppance, come Judgment Day. Last week came Judgment Day: up before the Senate was Joe's request for $214,000 to carry on the work of his permanent subcommittee on investigations during the next year. The vote: 85 "yea," only one "nay"—a voice raised by Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright after McCarthy had demanded a roll-call vote. Among the liberals who failed to hear the Trump: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Illinois' Paul Douglas, New York's Herbert Lehman, Oregon's Wayne Morse.