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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, 56, playwright (The Women, Margin for Error), wife of Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, sometime G.O.P. Congresswoman from Connecticut (1943-47) and Ambassador to Italy (1953-57), who was nominated by President Eisenhower in late February to be Ambassador to Brazil...
...Very Intemperate." When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took up Clare Luce's nomination in mid-April, it seemed likely that confirmation would be a simple formality; she had been confirmed unanimously by the Senate for her mission to Rome in 1953, and had come home with the praise of the Italians, of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and many a Democratic Senator. This time both the President and Secretary Dulles had given her warm endorsement, and Brazil's government and press had welcomed her appointment to Rio with notable enthusiasm...
...from the start the open hearing was unexpectedly rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used...
Switching to Italy, Morse accused the witness of having used her influence as U.S. ambassador to try to get the Italian government to change its oil policy and let private capital into oil exploration and development. Said Mrs. Luce: "I was the instrument of my country's policy. I had no private policy of my own, and certainly I had no oil policy of my own ... I tried, as my predecessor had tried ... to persuade the Italians that they would be far better off if they would develop their own subsoil riches, and that this could be most quickly...
...crux of the dilemma rested on the finely-felted shoulder of Timeditor Luce. Globally viewing with alarm, he messaged his trimly serene wife she must resign lest Timempire acquire politically biased repute. Clearly, she agreed that personal ambition, plus loss of her finely-honed talents, must yield to the greater, world-wide, propagation of truth, untainted...