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...long-awaited "great debate" on the Bricker amendment in the U.S. Senate did not materialize-the real struggle was in the cloakrooms, corridors and hotel suites where leaders of both parties worked for a compromise. The major Bricker amendment speech on the Senate floor was delivered by Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, who hovered near his point for two days with the drone of an overfed bumblebee while a handful of his colleagues slouched drowsily in their chairs. One reason for the sad quality of debate was that many Senators .were too busy elsewhere-arguing the Bricker amendment...
...Bricker knew that hard-core support for his original amendment had dwindled to 20 Senators. There remained, however, a much larger group in favor of some change in the treaty-making setup. In a search for compromise, earnestly pursued both by Bricker and Eisenhower representatives, proposal after proposal was tried and discarded. But by week's end, the basis for negotiations had narrowed to a draft made by Georgia's veteran Democratic Senator Walter George...
...modified in later conferences, the George substitute had four parts, three of which were acceptable both to the Administration and Bricker...
...fourth point, still in doubt, provides that an international agreement other than a treaty, e.g., an executive agreement, would become effective as internal law in the U.S. only by act of Congress. This was the sticker: Bricker okayed it, but the Department of Justice wanted more time to study its implications...
Some 250 Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment gathered in Washington, shook their heads sadly as Mrs. Robert Vogeler (wife of the freed prisoner of the Hungarian Reds) cried: "Men who serve their country now have fewer rights than men who betray it." Another orator made the Vigilant Women fairly squeal with delight when he gave his reasons for changing the U.S. Constitution, beginning with: "This is the 74th birthday of General Douglas MacArthur." The speaker was Clarence Manion, ex-dean of the University of Notre Dame's law school, now chairman of President Eisenhower's Commission...