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President Eisenhower's condemnation of the Bricker amendment (TIME, Jan. 25) was having its effect-and nobody knew it better than Republican John Bricker. Last week the Ohio Senator retaliated by sending a letter to each of his colleagues, asserting that the President had been "misinformed" about the amendment, and had given "wide circulation to ... erroneous charges." On the Senate floor, Bricker went further. Said he: "It would be highly improper for the President of the U.S. to employ extra-legal pressures in an effort to defeat the amendment...
...adequate Presidential leadership in this country, we would have no Bricker Amendment problem," he added...
...amendment, then, attacks two of the Constitution's most valuable principles, its distribution of authority and its balance of power. Why are Bricker & Company so anxious to junk the wisdom of those upon whose shades they so frequently call? They are afraid, apparently, that mistakes will be made, that some future President, Senate, House, and electorate will depart from the political ideas which they deem immutable. Aside from the arrogance of this stand, its rationale, that paralysis is better than risk of error, is appalling. It reflects the same mistrust of power that today makes France the picture of chaos...
...power necessary to discharge it. One suspects that behind the Senator's oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked his wing of the GOP for years, that the amendment is simply a bigger and better version of the wild attacks on the State Department. Unable to succeed straightforwardly, Bricker and his colleagues have launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore the fact that the conditions which doomed their views when made in the open, namely, the state of world politics which requires an ever increasing participation...
Seven members of the University faculty last night denounced the controversial Bricker Amendment to limit the treaty-making powers of the president as variously "dangerous, "unnecessary," and "awful." Most of the men interviewed felt the amendment would definitely be harmful...