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Senator Brewster, our audience, of course, knows you as the distinguished senior senator from Maine. How long have you been in the Senate, sir? This is my eleventh year. And what are your committee assignments now, sir? Among foreign relations and interstate and foreign commerce. And I believe that our audience understands that you are one of the three senators who has just rejected the nomination of Dr. Jessup. That's correct, isn't it, sir? Yes, there was a subcommittee of five members, and we've held hearings for three weeks, and three of us voted against his confirmation. Senator Smith, Senator Gillette on the ground that he lacked popular confidence. I voted against him on the ground he couldn't make himself understood, and I thought that was the first qualification of a diplomat. Senator, I believe that Mr. Jessup's background came into the discussion. His ties or beliefs with Red China? Yes, that was the basis of the original attack on him and on the policies that he had advocated. President Stassen of the University of Pennsylvania made some very serious charges and substantiated them pretty well with some of his evidence. Now, do you feel that this might set a dangerous precedent in which the past utterances or past beliefs of every nominee would be scrutinized, brought forth to impugn him today? My basis of criticism was his lack of candor in admitting the opinions he had held, his attempt to cover up opinions which he obviously had held. We had four men, Senator Smith and Mr. Stassen, General Fortier, and today Admiral Cook all testified they understood from Jessup that he rather inclined to the recognition of Red China. He absolutely denies it. If he doesn't seem all those men could be wrong or else he doesn't have the capacity to make himself understood and that's unfortunate in the diplomat. You'd feel differently about him if he had said, well, yes, I did feel that way about Red China. I think he would have made a much better show and we had Tobias down there, one of the delegates and he was connected with various communist organizations. He admitted it frankly, said he didn't realize at the time. He was sorry for it, he's very much opposed and obviously confirmed him today along with eight other delegates and left Jessup out. The Senate acted today to my very great gratification. I was glad they took Mrs. Roosevelt and Warren Austin out of the class of those whom the Senator refused to confirm. Senator, I suppose that you are quite popular with your colleague Senator McCarthy now as a result of this action. Do you regard your vote as a vindication of what is commonly known as McCarthyism? No, I think the McCarthy charges did not occupy as prominent a place in this situation as the friends of Mr. Jessup would have desired. They started out to make McCarthy the issue rather than Jessup but as a result of the entry of Harold Stassen the issue became Jessup and his actions. This does to a measurable extent vindicate McCarthy's original charge a year ago that he felt that Jessup was the architect of our Far Eastern policy. That Senator Smith himself agreed was one of the fundamental issues. That was the original McCarthy charge. Now Senator, on that issue, I believe that you are a well-known supporter of Senator Taff's candidacy for the presidency. Yes, I have long believed that he was the logical nominee. You've known the Senator for many years I believe. Yes, I voted for him for president of the Harvard Law Review 30 years ago. Do you think that Senator Taff, number one, can win the Republican nomination? I believe that he has the most excellent chance. I think he's a long ways taught it today from what I've observed in the country. And do you think that as the Republican nominee he will have a good chance to defeat President Truman? I think he'll make the kind of a campaign which I believe the Republicans and many Americans want to have a fight in campaign. That's the kind of a man he is and he has a tremendous knowledge of events. That's one of his unique qualifications because he has an encyclopedic mind and has it all his fingertips. And what do you think, sir, will be the principal issue in the presidential campaign? I think that confusion, corruption, and communism are altogether likely to be the major issues in the campaign. And I think we have a great deal of ammunition on all those scores. Confusion, corruption, and communism. You expect that to be one of the Republican slogans, actually. It's my slogan at any rate for the campaign. CCC. That's right. Alphabetical agencies are frequent down there. You were one of the many who went over to see General Eisenhower this past summer. Yes, I was over there. And I assume that after visiting General Eisenhower you compared General Eisenhower and Mr. Taft and came up with Mr. Taft. No, I wouldn't say that that was the case. I came back, fully persuaded, as I stated, that General Eisenhower was the indispensable man in Europe. And I was very much gratified, although you might not agree to find the New York Times agreed with me the other day when their correspondent over in Europe had a two-column story to the same effect. Of course, that was very objective. Politicians are sometimes suspect. Senator. I'm sure that our audience would like you to discuss Spain because you've been active in trying to obtain more American aid for Spain. I believe you also traveled there. I've been over there several times and feel very strongly about the wisdom of our cultivating far more closer relations with them. Now, what is the basis of that, sir? I mean, are you interested in cultivating them for military reasons? Yes, that is the cornerstone. I think all of our defense authorities, that's one thing on which we have complete unification. The army because of the ground that is offered, the air core because of the splendid conditions. You can operate all the year and they have very good airfields. And the navy because of the ports and because it's the key to the Mediterranean. How we can ever expect to have a great fleet over there in the Mediterranean as we do now without assured sympathetic cooperation from Spain is incalculable. How then do we have all this opposition? Opposition from the White House? I think it is emotional and ideological. The French and the British governments now in power have been very critical of the Franco regime and there are many elements in this country who agree. If the British election should go to Mr. Churchill there would be quite a change in the British attitude. Churchill, who was all through the war, knows thoroughly that Spanish picture. And I've discussed it with him this summer and I know that he fully agrees with those in this country who consider Spain as the cornerstone to European defense. Quite parenthetically, not to leave Spain. Do you think Churchill has a pretty good chance? That was the feeling when I was there and apparently every development since has indicated it. The betting odds are very much in his favor as they were in favor of Mr. Dewey a couple of years ago. Well, Senator, I'd like to come back just a moment to the military aspects of Spain. Do our military authorities believe that we could hold Spain in the event of a war with Russia? The Pyrenees are the best natural barrier in the world, probably. If you've flown over, you'll see it running from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic and almost impenetrable barrier so that it would be very feasible and Spain has from one to two million men who are good fighters. Whatever you think about the Spaniards, they're certainly fighters as they demonstrated in their own civil war. They've had a lot of practice. That's right. And the opposition, we were speaking of the opposition in our country to our aid to Spain and you said that it was emotional. Has the religious issue also been important there? I referred to. I thought it was better to call it emotion rather than the religious fanaticism. But that has been very greatly played up and agitated and I think it has been an influence operating very powerfully in our State Department as manifest in a variety of ways. Now, they finally announced a year ago, January, they were going to normalize relations. Then this year, Admiral Sherman finally persuaded them that we must cultivate closer military arrangements and he was over there. I was there at the same time when his tragic death came. Why is it that we haven't heard anything more about it since Admiral Sherman? Because the State Department is now doing exactly what they did on China and exactly what they've done in some other quarters. They are carrying on a slowdown on that situation and are planning to sabotage the program if they can and I think it is a tragic blow at the adequate preparations about defense. Will they sabotage the money you've appropriated? We appropriated a year ago $62 million and it took them nearly a year to distribute it. Meanwhile, they gave $50 million to Yugoslavia before they even had any authorization. That made the difference. Yugoslavia has a communist regime while Spain has a Catholic ideology and that is apparently not acceptable to those in control in our State Department and I think it's time the American people understood it. Then I understand you, Senator, that you believe that American dollars spent abroad can be spent very effectively in Spain. I want to thank you very much for being with us tonight, sir. The editorial board for this edition of the Laun Jean Chronoscope was Mr. Donald I. Rogers and Mr. William Bradford Huey. Our distinguished guest was the Honorable Owen Brewster, United States Senator from Maine. I went to the museum of the city of New York and I asked, have you got a picture of the New York of 1866? The reason, of course, was that in 1866 in New York, the Laun Jean Wittner Watch Company opened its doors for business. They gave me this interesting picture. There were sailing ships on the Hudson and the East Rivers, but there were no bridges or subways, no tunnels. Yet 2 million people already made their homes on Manhattan Island. This was the scene when our company's travelers, by horse cars, steam train and on horseback, first brought Laun Jean watches to find jewelers throughout the land. What's past is prelude that has been written. This was the prelude to 85 years of leadership in the art of fine watchmaking. 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