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Soon letters were pouring into newspapers, heavily backing an American trial for Girard. Congressmen, from left to right, were hammering at the Dulles-Wilson ruling; e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker accused the Government of "sacrificing an American soldier to appease Japanese public opinion." Girard's defense attorney, who was recommended for the job by the Hearst New York Journal-American, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to have Girard brought back to the U.S., announced plans to subpoena Dulles, Wilson and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker. The counterblasts were soon rolling in from all over Asia...
Rights Conceded, Rights Gained. Argument over status of forces does not end, of course, with the pragmatic fact that it is working well. Ohio's Senator John Bricker takes a stand upon "150 years of national policy and international law" to argue that every sovereign government has exclusive jurisdiction over its own forces in all circumstances. The Justice and State Departments flatly deny this interpretation, hold that in law the host state has the last word; they add that status-of-forces agreements guarantee rights to the U.S. that it would not otherwise legally possess. Bricker adds that allied...
Dallying in the Senate's ornate dining room over a late supper, Ohio's John Bricker drew a quarter from his pocket as he mulled over a problem with New York's Irving Ives and Utah's Arthur Watkins. Each was a ranking contender for the chair on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee left empty by Joe McCarthy's death, and it was Bricker's job, as chairman of the Republican Committee on Committees, to make the choice. Ordinarily, the nod would have gone to the Republican with the greater seniority. Bricker...
...decision was tougher. As a practicing Mormon, he is opposed to gambling on principle, reluctantly accepts the Senate custom ("It isn't really gambling") for lack of a practical alternative. Moreover, out of eight previous turns at Senate coin tossing, he has lost eight times. At length, as Bricker flipped the coin experimentally, Watkins gave in. "Heads," he called as the quarter whirled in the air. It came up tails. Sighed Arthur Watkins: "My record of losing at this is still intact...
Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche rose to back Douglas, but before day's end Lausche, too, crumbled. Ohio's senior Senator, Republican John Bricker, urging an extra $15 million for harbor improvements in Cleveland, remarked with a straight face that the state's junior Senator favored the amendment. Put on the spot, Lausche reached for his slice of pork. "I would be unfair to my constituents in Ohio," he declared, "if ... I did not concur with my associate Senator...