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Sponsored by Senator Fulbright, former Rhodes Scholar and one-time president of the University of Arkansas, the bill calls for the setting aside of specific amounts of money received from the sale of American surplus war materials to foreign countries to be expended as scholarships for American students studying abroad. The maximum amount of money to be used will be one million dollars per country per year. Foreign countries, desperately in need of the million and one items from bulldozers to Quonset huts that are now gathering rust in American stockpiles overseas, and yet at the same time reluctant...
Among the 200 Rhodes scholars who rate Who's Who in America: Henry Holt & Co.'s President Joseph Brandt, ex-OWI Director Elmer Davis, FCCommissioner Clifford J. Durr, Arkansas Senator. J. William Fulbright, Author Christopher Morley...
...suggestion of Senator Fulbright [TIME, Dec. 31] that the Government use the possible $6 billion credit from the sale of surplus war goods overseas to finance an exchange of U.S. and foreign students is the most constructive idea for advancing global understanding that we have yet heard...
...reactionary. Montana's James E. Murray opposed it because his view coincides with the C.I.O.'s, whose leaders are solidly against the measure. Utah's scholarly Elbert D. Thomas, a painstaking legislator, likes to think twice before he makes a law. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, one of the heroes of the old anti-isolationist debates, thought "fact-finding" did not go far enough, that unions must be made more responsible...
...Fulbright proposed that the $6 billion be turned over to the State Department, which would give about $20 million a year to U.S. students for studying abroad and for foreign students to study...