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Senator William F. Knowland (R-Cal) will address the Harvard Young Republicans Club today at 2: 30 p.m. in Harkness Commons...
...danger of [high-level conferences], and I know how frequently they are futile and useless, but at the same time, I think we have reached a point where we could try." The Senator's remarks set off a whirl in Washington. California's Republican Senator William Knowland, always suspicious of any overtures to the Communists, promptly asked President Eisenhower his views. Afterward, on the front steps of the White House, he announced that the George suggestion is "not the viewpoint of the Government at the present time." While reporters were absorbing Know-land's statement, a State...
Vodka & Caviar. Neither Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Senator George nor Senator Knowland had any basic quarrel with the President's views. All agreed that the possibility of a four-power conference should be carefully-most carefully-explored. In a conversation with a friend, Dulles once put his finger on the Administration's wariness of top-level meetings with vague agenda...
Twelve members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee went to sea last week, for an overnight ride in the atomic submarine Nautilus. (Said California's Senator William Knowland: "This will be the deepest-thinking congressional committee meeting ever held.") Most Congressmen rushed back from their trip on the top-secret vessel full of enthusiasm and ready with tales of a night...
...then, word of the Times exclusive was racing around Washington. Newsmen began to badger their own sources, and copies of the report were leaking fast. Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who were lunching that day with Secretary of State Dulles, angrily reported the uproar to him. As a result, Dulles' office told reporters after lunch that copies of the Yalta record and background briefings would be released to the entire press later in the afternoon...