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After graduation from Georgetown in '50, Sigmund went to England on a Fulbright, studied for a year at the University of Durham, and "lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
...eloquent oratorical guns at critics who "attack our policy as too rigid and inflexible," and those who sneer at a U.S. foreign policy based on moral principles. Before he had taken his seat, he had crossed swords with such eminent senior Democratic defenders of flexibility as Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Montana's Mike Mansfield, assistant majority leader. And he had provoked top-drawer praise from foreign-policy specialists on both sides of the aisle...
...Lives . . . The debate reached its argumentative climax when Foreign Relations Chairman Fulbright rose up to do battle on the point of morality. Dodd's claim that Berlin is a "moral issue," said Fulbright, "means, I take it, that political implications are secondary and that . . . evil is all that is involved. In that case I think there is no hope whatever for any kind of adjustment or compromise, and therefore we must reconcile ourselves to inevitable war ... I should like to proceed on the premise that it is possible to find some adjustment in time...
...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...
...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...