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Civil Rights. Though Southern Senators have bottled up legislation for a month in James 0. Eastland's Judiciary Committee, a break is in sight. Last week Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland delivered a G.O.P. ultimatum: no out-of-town trips for judiciary members until civil rights reaches the Senate floor. Reacting hastily, the Democratic leadership promised to report out the measure by May 20. Prognosis: after passage in the House and a last-stand Southern filibuster in the Senate, civil rights will be passed this session...
...Congress, the cold front clashed with the warm winds of modern Republicanism. Principal orphans of the storm were the Eisenhower Republicans in Cabinet, House and Senate. The principal happy onlookers, snug and comfortable in Taftite redoubts, were G.O.P. conservatives of the stripe of California's William Fife Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose case had been better sold by Humphrey than ever before...
...Administration hopes that even such stout defenders of Nationalist China as California's Senator William Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges can be persuaded to go along. To win approval, one important point in U.S. policy had to be re-emphasized. The move is being made only to help other Consultative Group nations ease their economic problems", but the U.S., which enforces a complete embargo on U.S. trade with Red China, will continue that embargo...
Senate GOP leader Knowland (Calif.) and House Republican chief Martin (Mass.) told newsmen there was nothing to such reports--that, in fact, they look for early action in both the Senate and House on Eisenhower's civil rights program...
...Eisenhower's brand of Republicanism suits the G.O.P. rank and file just fine. Between "Liberal Republicanism" represented by Ike, Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and "Conservative Republicanism" represented by the late Robert Taft, William Knowland and Herbert Hoover, the Eisenhower side won a thundering vote of confidence: 74% to 18% among Republican voters, 75% to 11% among Independents...