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...White House blames Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright for prematurely leaking the ambassadorial appointments lists to the New York Times. Fulbright was an early Kennedy choice for Secretary of State before he was shot down as a segregationist. One result of the leak was to stir up a newspaper ruckus over controversial appointments before approval had been received from the foreign ministries. Principal victim: the Kennedy family's close Palm Beach friend. ex-Cuban Ambassador Earl Smith, who was politely blackballed by the Swiss government (TIME, March...
Reischauer was in Washington last week for lengthy conferences with both Chester A. Bowles and Senator William J. Fulbright. Bowles, Under-secretary of State, has been active in the Administration's appointments to diplomatic posts, and Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has repeatedly urged Reischauer's appointment...
...prospective Secretary of State Dean Rusk stepped up for his fitness hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week and passed, as everyone expected, with high honors. Before the fact, though, there had been some promise of drama. Across the committee table. Rusk had to face Chairman William Fulbright-a man who could have had Rusk's job had he not been an Arkansas segregationist-and a squad of Republicans intent on making sure that the next State Secretary is not "soft" on Communism...
...hearing's end, Chairman Fulbright decided that Rusk had "handled himself very well indeed." But the approval seemed to say more for the manner of Rusk's performance than its matter. Observed one veteran viewer of State Secretaries in their appearances before Congress: "He was as intelligent, quick, and knowledgeable as Acheson or Dulles. But he wasn't preachy like Dulles or patronizing like Acheson. Which is all to the good, for those are things that aggravate Senators...
Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28, professor of Fine Arts, will present a paper on "Religious Art: East and West." John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology; Krister Stendahl, John H. Morrison Professor of New Testament Studies; Wilbur K. Jordan, professor of History; and Genjun H. Sasaki, visiting Fulbright lecturer, will also attend the conference...