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Last week the U.S. Senate put away the Bricker amendment and its less muscular cousin, the George amendment. Not since Little Eva has there been quite such a deathbed scene...
...Senator Bricker's own brain child, an amendment to his original resolution, gave up the ghost quietly enough, but the protracted anguish came on the question of final Senate passage for a milder proposal that had been submitted by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George...
...Mark My Words." Walter George, up for a last appeal, wept copiously as he traded emotional compliments with Republican Senator Bricker, who was in full support of the substitute. Said George: "Mark my words now, gentlemen, you are going to submit a constitutional amendment . . . You will do it now, or you will do it later...
...likely to lose some strength, as he will in any battle, but this might be rather a good thing. For his great fear of losing popularity through alienating a wing of his party prevents him from putting through his program. He has bucked that wing on the Bricker Amendment issue and won, but has not yet felt strong action on the McCarthy issue is necessary. Yesterday's statement shows that the President understands the problem, but it also shows that he as yet fails to understand the urgent need for direct action...
...Give a weasel-word reply. 6. In the foreign relations field Ike had plenty of trouble in his own party over the Bricker Amendment, which had been designed to: 1. Extend the Monroe Doctrine to Asia...