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Predictably, congressional reaction ranged from sympathetic understanding to outrage. Arkansas' William Fulbright, second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thought that Britain had simply acted because she was weary of waiting for the U.S. to change its "sterile" China policy. Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, unyielding foe of Peking and long twitted as the ''Senator from Formosa," rose on the Senate floor to warn that the British trade might "some day in the not too distant future strengthen Communist China to the point where it can feel it dares to take the risk of taking...
...House votes showed Republicans backing the President and Democrats pushing against him in the touchy field of national defense. That fact was not lost on Senate Democrats, long proud of their defense record, who found themselves liking heavy economy less and less. Therefore, with Republican Leader William Knowland pledging to support defense restorations despite his own budget-cutting hopes, the Senate outlook was increasingly promising. Best prospect: the Senate may go along with the $1.3 billion in "bookkeeping" reductions, but restore the $1.2 billion in muscle cuts from the armed forces...
...candidate: Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland, who would like to spring from California's governorship (over Incumbent Goodwin Knight's dead body) to the White House-but, governorship or no, is available...
...Bill Knowland's intentions are unmistakable. Since early this year he has averaged two outside-Washington speaking appearances a week. Up to 1957, Knowland always made a point of boasting about his record of support for the Eisenhower Administration. But Presidential Candidate Knowland carefully positions himself to the right of Dwight Eisenhower (and Richard Nixon) on nearly all major issues. He aggressively opposes the Eisenhower budget, wants to cut it by $3 billion, slash foreign aid by $500 million (yet he embraces as his special overseas charges some half a dozen Asian nations-ranging from Nationalist China to Pakistan...
Pundit Walter Lippmann wondered last week whether it is "good public morals" for the Republican leader of the Senate to oppose the Republican President of the U.S. But Bill Knowland has no known pangs of conscience. He has always made it abundantly clear that his primary obligation is to the Republican Party, not to Ike. Even so, it is the Republican Party that Knowland may in the end hurt most, for, as Conservative Columnist David Lawrence (see PRESS) said last week, "If the leadership of President Eisenhower is forsaken by an influential bloc in his party, the 'modern Republicans...