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...identify its own self-interest with the fate of freedom thousands of miles away. Yet the pronouncement of that principle, Webster recorded, was greeted with 'one general glow of exultation.' That principle has now been extended . . . Within the last ten years the U.S., always acting in a bipartisan manner, has made such treaties with 42 countries of America, Europe and Asia. These treaties abolish, as between the parties, the principle of neutrality...
Distinct Wilt. But more basically, Dick Richards, long a bipartisan-minded supporter of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, feels a distinct wilt of enthusiasm because the Administration has never made ringingly clear where it is headed in foreign aid after this year. Said Richards: "Germany is lagging on rearmament. France is using NATO divisions and NATO equipment in North Africa. Great Britain is cutting down her own defense establishment and talking about abolishing the draft. Italy is talking with emphasis on economic and not military aid from now on. If that's going to be the attitude...
...Senate Finance Committee and to become, instead, Foreign Relations Chairman. George agreed, became the strong voice of foreign-policy bipartisanship on Capitol Hill (TIME. April 25, 1955). When Ike asked for a free hand in dealing with the Formosa area crisis, George's support produced an overwhelming bipartisan vote of confidence. His early, public espousal of a Big Four meeting was a key factor in the President's decision to attend the summit conference at Geneva last summer...
Kefauver promised, if elected President, to "reinstate not just a bipartisan foreign policy but a nonpartisan foreign policy." He urged less emphasis on "military might as our only method and our sole end in the world." As for Russia, the U.S. "must be prepared to meet all genuine offers of peaceful cooperation in the spirit in which they are given...
...press. Although they are ordinarily no friends of the Administration, Missouri's Stuart Symington and Kentucky's Alben Barkley, both National Security Council members under Harry Truman, went along with President Eisenhower's view that CIA is "too sensitive" to be watchdogged. By the time the bipartisan opposition had finished, ten sponsors had backed out on Mansfield, and the Senate, 59-27, turned down his resolution...