Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calculated to Weaken." Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, onetime President of the University of Arkansas, who wears his Rhodes scholarship on his sleeve, waited patiently and purposefully for his turn with Dulles. When it came, he pushed his glasses down his nose and began to read a prepared statement. U.S. Middle Eastern policy under Dulles, he said, has "grievously wounded" Britain and France. Before Congress approves the Eisenhower resolutions, Fulbright continued, Dulles should be called upon to account for why these "responsible and friendly governments" had felt it necessary to conceal from the U.S. their plans for armed intervention...
...Speaking for myself," said Bill Fulbright, "I need more convincing evidence than I have had, up to this time, that the Secretary of State has evolved policies regarding the Middle East which are in the interest of our national welfare. I regard the policies which he has been following as harmful to our interests, as being calculated to weaken the influence of the free world in the Middle East, disastrous to the NATO organization, and as damaging to our friendship with Great Britain and France." Dulles, he said, should prepare a State Department White Paper reviewing "his conduct...
...Intellectual Wilderness." Dulles scribbled heavily at his doodle pad, his face beet-red, and Rhode Island's ancient (89) Theodore Francis Green suggested impatiently that Bill Fulbright was going far beyond the senatorial province of asking questions. Later Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey took up the Fulbright cause...
Even while Fulbright and his Senate friends were plucking the political fiddle strings, the House of Representatives was moving swiftly-and with point. The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the Eisenhower resolution virtually intact by a 24-to-2 vote, moved it toward the House floor, where overwhelming approval is expected. But the committee report also noted that the resolution failed to meet such "basic"' Middle Eastern problems as Arab-Israeli relations, the Suez Canal dilemma, and the handling of Arab refugees. The House, said the committee, should get on with the business of adopting the Eisenhower resolution...
...John Foster Dulles faced the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees to defend anew the President's request for authority to use U.S. forces and dollars to keep the Communists out of the Middle East. Buzzed by a swarm of Democrats headed by Arkansas' William Fulbright, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Wayne Morse, Dulles said sharply that the Middle Eastern situation is the most dangerous that the U.S. has encountered in ten years. When North Dakota's Republican Bill Langer asked whether the Eisenhower plan would increase the chances...