Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, hardworking, soft-selling Dillon earned a major share of the credit for steering reciprocal trade and foreign aid through a bullheadedly balky Congress. Perhaps the most popular of all-State Department officials on Capitol Hill, Dillon is especially friendly with Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, new chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
There is a little doubt that the criticism of the young Democratic senators, now secure in positions of authority in that house, represents an effort to exert a greater influence over the conduct of foreign affairs. The trip to Russia of Senator Humphrey, the remarks of Senator Fulbright both before and since his ascension to the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, and the speech last week of Senator Mansfield on Berlin are recent examples of their endeavors to shape and influence policy...
...flourished when Senator Vandenberg was involved in the planning and presentation of Democratic policies on Europe. The retirement of Secretary Dulles may well aid this process, since much of the disagreement between Dulles and his critics has been one of attitude and method rather than of fundamentals. That Senator Fulbright could fulfill the role of Vandenberg may seem inconceivable in the light of his past attacks on the administration, but stranger things have happened in Washington...
Green's successor: Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, 53, who was born in Missouri, went to Oxford with a Rhodes scholarship, served for two years as president of the University of Arkansas, was elected to the House in 1942 and to the Senate in 1944, was one of the 96 signers of the Southern manifesto attacking the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregated schools. A longtime critic of Eisenhower Administration foreign policy, Bill Fulbright nonetheless wasted no time in getting in touch with State Secretary John Foster Dulles, promised his cooperation...
...Fulbright said he and Dulles discussed various possibilities, including one proposal that both allied and Soviet troops be withdrawn a substantial distance from both banks of the Elbe River. This would leave a wide zone through Germany devoid of either Soviet or allied forces. Fulbright gave no details on the discussion about this suggestion...