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...these words, Republican John Foster Dulles divorced himself last week from the wrangles over U.S. foreign policy that have recently obsessed Washington. The tall, solemn G.O.P. expert on foreign affairs took, a long step toward restoring the nation's bipartisan spirit in foreign policy by accepting an $11,000 job as a top consultant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Like the recent hiring of former Republican Senator John Cooper of Kentucky as a State Department advisor, Dulles' appointment was designed to quiet ruffled Republican tempers on Capitol Hill and restore some of the harmony which...
...determined bipartisan majority listened but was not impressed. When voting began, it doggedly beat down one McCarran proposal after another: by prearrangement, a Democrat would answer one amendment, a Republican the next. McCarran tried to cut the total number of admissible D.P.s, to swamp the D.P. quotas by making eligible 8,000,000 Germans expelled from Iron Curtain countries, to keep discriminatory requirements against Jews and Catholics, to ban all D.P. admissions when there are more than 4,000,000 U.S. unemployed or more than 2,000,000 families living doubled...
...dead it was, who killed the bipartisan foreign policy? Administration spokesmen said the Republicans had done it-with their slings and arrows. Last week New York's Irving Ives rose in the Senate to point a Republican finger in the opposite direction...
...show that he was still just as anxious as anybody to restore bipartisan cooperation in foreign affairs (see above), Secretary of State Dean Acheson last week announced he would take a Republican adviser along with him when he goes to London in May for the conference of Atlantic pact nations. The Republican: ex-Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, now a Washington lawyer...
Republican Cooper is cast in much the same role that Republican John Foster Dulles played in previous international conferences. An able and vigorous supporter of bipartisan foreign policy when he was in the Senate (he was beaten in 1948), 48-year-old, Yale-trained John Cooper had the backing of Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, who had approved his appointment...