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...were bottled up for the duration by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The Senators explained that they were mindful of the resentment over the adoption of Prohibition while World War I servicemen were overseas. But what seemed more to the point was that they had just tabled the Fulbright resolution. Arkansas' internationalist Senator Fulbright decided something should be done about the Constitutional provision which allows one-third-plus-one of the Senate to block a treaty. His resolution proposed that treaties be ratified by a simple majority in House and Senate...
Instigators were Democrat J. William Fulbright, former Rhodes Scholar and Arkansas University president, Republican H. Alexander Smith, onetime Buchmanite, Hoover Relief staffer, now an internationally-minded lawyer. They called their colleagues together, drafted the letter, got it approved by Senate leaders of both parties. It was signed by all freshmen Senators, ten Democrats and six Republicans...
...Committed the U.S. to international cooperation with the Fulbright and Connally resolutions (after studying and pigeonholing the more forthright E2R2; resolution...
...list of those Senators who won without a struggle is studded with internationalists: Alabama's Lister Hill, Arizona's Carl Hayden, Arkansas' James William Fulbright, Florida's Claude Pepper, North Carolina's Clyde Hoey-Democrats all; plus G.O.P. Internationalists George Aiken of Vermont and Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts...
...Senate, Ohio's Bob Taft beat Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally to the draw by introducing a resolution similar to Fulbright's, which would specifically write world free-press guarantees into the peace treaties...