Word: bipartisanism
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...Congress, it had been Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg who had beaten back the attacks of the isolationists within his own party. But his recent, critical operation had left Vandenberg tired and weakened, and there was an ominous rumbling of activity from among Republicans who had consistently fought the bipartisan foreign policy on EGA, the Atlantic Treaty and the military-assistance program...
Arriving early in Washington last week, Nebraska's Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry put the rumblings into words. From now on, Wherry announced, he would refuse to be bound by the decisions made by "bipartisan bigwigs." He proposed that all new foreign commitments be hauled down to the floor of the Senate for a full-dress brawl-a proposal which the Christian Science Monitor denounced as an attempt to "Wherrymander" U.S. foreign policy...
...term in the House, but this winter he was talking isolation again and his stand had re-won him the favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick. Launching his campaign last fall; Dirksen pitched his battle on the field of foreign policy, charging that the bipartisan foreign-aid program is "pouring money down a rathole." At this point, many an Illinois politician thinks Dirksen, an effective campaigner, has at least an even chance of beating Lucas...
Impatient with the State Department's attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
Dulles sent a terse, good-natured telegram to President Harry Truman: "You win." The President didn't reply. At his weekly press conference he plainly implied that he probably would find little further use for Dulles as a bipartisan spokesman at the world's diplomatic councils. If so, the loss would be the nation's as well as Dulles', for though an amateur in politics, he had been a professional in diplomacy since...