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Line 59: + + − − Wherry was part of a group of lawmakers and journalists who toured the [[Buchenwald]] concentration camp, which American forces had liberated on April 11, 1945, after the deaths of more than 56,000 people.T General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] left rotting corpses on the ground so that the visiting party could grasp the extent of the atrocities.<ref>Marvin E. Stromer, "The Making of a Political Leader: Kenneth S. Wherry and the United States Senate," (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969) p. 136–137.</ref>
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[[File:Kenneth Wherry of NE.jpg|thumb|left|Wherry in 1940.]]
[[File:Kenneth Wherry of NE.jpg|thumb|left|Wherry in 1940.]]
Senator Wherry was an [[isolationist]] and an iconoclast in foreign affairs and was one of the few defenders of the [[Germany|German]] people suffering in the postwar years from starvation. He joined six colleagues in opposition to the U.S. entry into the [[United Nations]] because he expected none of these organizations to benefit the American people. He opposed the [[Marshall Plan]], the [[Truman Doctrine]], and entry into the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]].<ref>"UNO Bill Approved By Senate, 65 to 7, With One Change," ''[[The New York Times]],'' December 4, 1945.</ref> With conservative Senator Homer Capehart of [[Indiana]], he supported building military family housing in the post-[[World War II]] era.<ref>Bernard Lemelin, "Isolationist Voices in the Truman Era: Nebraska Senators Hugh Butler and Kenneth Wherry." ''Great Plains Quarterly'' (Vol. 37, No. 2) (2017), pp. 83-109.</ref> He was the leader of the twenty conservative isolationists in the Senate. He was outmaneuvered by the [[internationalist]] wing, led by Moderate Republican Senator [[Arthur Vandenberg]] of [[Michigan]]. The isolationists claimed that supporting the [[socialist]] post-war governments of Western Europe would not thwart the spread of international [[communism]], but Vandenberg said that the Marshall Plan would at the least stop economic chaos, sustain Western Civilization, and stop further Soviet expansion. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]], a son of U.S. President [[William Howard Taft]] who lost three bids for the Republican presidential nomination, said that the Marshall Plan had no economic justification but was needed in the battle against communism. Ultimately, only seventeen senators voted against the Marshall Plan on March 13, 1948.<ref>John C. Campbell, ''The United States in World affairs: 1947-1948'' (1948) pp 500-505; quotes on pages 504, 505.</ref>
Senator Wherry was an [[isolationist]] and an iconoclast in foreign affairs and was one of the few defenders of the [[Germany|German]] people suffering in the postwar years from starvation. He joined six colleagues in opposition to the U.S. entry into the [[United Nations]] because he expected none of these organizations to benefit the American people. He opposed the [[Marshall Plan]], the [[Truman Doctrine]], and entry into the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]].<ref>"UNO Bill Approved By Senate, 65 to 7, With One Change," ''[[The New York Times]],'' December 4, 1945.</ref> With conservative Senator Homer Capehart of [[Indiana]], he supported building military family housing in the post-[[World War II]] era.<ref>Bernard Lemelin, "Isolationist Voices in the Truman Era: Nebraska Senators Hugh Butler and Kenneth Wherry." ''Great Plains Quarterly'' (Vol. 37, No. 2) (2017), pp. 83-109.</ref> He was the leader of the twenty conservative isolationists in the Senate. He was outmaneuvered by the [[internationalist]] wing, led by Moderate Republican Senator [[Arthur Vandenberg]] of [[Michigan]]. The isolationists claimed that supporting the [[socialist]] post-war governments of Western Europe would not thwart the spread of international [[communism]], but Vandenberg said that the Marshall Plan would at the least stop economic chaos, sustain Western Civilization, and stop further Soviet expansion. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]], a son of U.S. President [[William Howard Taft]] who lost three bids for the Republican presidential nomination, said that the Marshall Plan had no economic justification but was needed in the battle against communism. Ultimately, only seventeen senators voted against the Marshall Plan on March 13, 1948.<ref>John C. Campbell, ''The United States in World affairs: 1947-1948'' (1948) pp 500-505; quotes on pages 504, 505.</ref>
Wherry was part of a group of lawmakers and journalists who toured the [[Buchenwald]] concentration camp, which American forces had liberated on April 11, 1945, after the deaths of more than 56,000 people.T General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] left rotting corpses on the ground so that the visiting party could grasp the extent of the atrocities.<ref>Marvin E. Stromer, "The Making of a Political Leader: Kenneth S. Wherry and the United States Senate," (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969) p. 136–137.</ref>
In the spring of 1950, Wherry joined Sen. [[J. Lister Hill]], a liberal Democrat from [[Alabama]], in a congressional investigation of [[homosexual]]s in government, particularly the [[United States Department of State]]. Wherry argued that:<ref>{{cite web|author=Judith Adkins|title= 'These People Are Frightened to Death': Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare|year=2016 |volume= 48 |number=2|journal=''Prologue''|publisher=National Archives|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html|ref name=March 31, 2021}}</ref>
In the spring of 1950, Wherry joined Sen. [[J. Lister Hill]], a liberal Democrat from [[Alabama]], in a congressional investigation of [[homosexual]]s in government, particularly the [[United States Department of State]]. Wherry argued that:<ref>{{cite web|author=Judith Adkins|title= 'These People Are Frightened to Death': Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare|year=2016 |volume= 48 |number=2|journal=''Prologue''|publisher=National Archives|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html|ref name=March 31, 2021}}</ref>
{{cquote|...only the most naïve could believe that the communists' [[fifth column]] in the United States would neglect to propagate and use homosexuals to gain their treacherous ends.}}
{{cquote|...only the most naïve could believe that the communists' [[fifth column]] in the United States would neglect to propagate and use homosexuals to gain their treacherous ends.}}
==Death==
==Death==