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More than ever before, responsible U.S. political thinkers are coming to recognize that the nation must, when necessary, go beyond the U.N. to achieve its intentions. One of the latest to do so is Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who urges the U.S. to create and lead a new "concert of free nations," united both by opposition to "the formidable threat of aggressive imperialistic Communism" and by "a feeling and deep conviction of shared values and interests" (see cover story...
Memory of Metternich. Most conspicuous American advocate of this notion is Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In an article written weeks ago for the October issue of Foreign Affairs, Fulbright declares that the "grand innovation" of a U.N. as a global executive has failed "because it defied history and falsely assumed the existence of a community of the great powers." In the Security Council, the veto reflects the realities of power politics; in the General Assembly, anarchy rules. "A body in which Guatemala or Bulgaria exercises the same voting power as the United...
Marvin William Makinen was a bright boy. The son of a laboratory technician, he grew up in Ashburnham, Mass., where his father had a job in a paper mill, showed an early precocity in mathematics, won a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Last year he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study as an exchange student at West Berlin's Free University. One of his professors characterized the 22-year-old Makinen as "the most serious and hard-working young American we have seen in Berlin in a long time." Makinen spoke fluent German and Finnish (which...
...cream-colored doors of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room swung open and the weary members of a Senate House conference committee emerged after six days of bargaining. They left behind Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright to face newsmen. Fulbright spoke slowly, somberly. The conference committee, he said, had at last arrived at a compromise agreement for the U.S. foreign aid program. As Fulbright briefly described the terms of that agreement, it appeared outwardly to be a considerable victory for the Kennedy Administration. Actually, it was by far the Administration's most serious legislative defeat this session...
Congress approve a pending revision of the is-year-old Fulbright Act that would unify and expand all U.S. exchange programs into what Senator Fulbright calls "a positive instrument of foreign policy...