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Enlightenment Needed. There is only one answer to such a mood: work. The President sent Secretary of State Dean Rusk up Capitol Hill with special congressional briefings on Viet Nam-a performance that provided at least one House Republican with a dry chuckle: "Obviously, there's one more 'nervous Nellie' in Washington after those polls." The Congressmen listened to Rusk's assurances that South Viet Nam's political crisis was easing, but few were wholly convinced. "We may have to make a decision damned soon about whether to pull out of the war," growled South...
Spreading the Word. For their part, Fulbright and his antiwar coterie in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee continued their assault on the Administration. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, making his eighth appearance before the committee this year, proceeded to outline-in extensive detail-the legal basis for the U.S. commitment in South Viet Nam. The Secretary's discourse ended in a hot-tempered exchange among Democratic members of the committee...
Oregon's Wayne Morse complained waspishly that Rusk's explanation of Administration policies was a "one-way street" allowing no rebuttal. Ohio's Frank Lausche called that a "complete misstatement" and retorted-correctly -that the committee itself had brought up the subject, though the hearings were supposed to be limited to foreign aid. Fulbright insisted that "this morning is for the aid program," adding curtly that the legality of the war is a "very involved subject" that should be pursued later...
...Department since 1961 are abandoning their posts. McGeorge Bundy, foreign-policy coordinator for both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, left in February. Thomas Mann, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and third man in the State Department hierarchy, announced his departure last month. Under Secretary George Ball, Dean Rusk's No. 2 man, will probably be gone within three months...
...Barnett describes it as a process of "slowly involving Communist China in more patterns of international intercourse." Says Harvard's John Lindbeck: "One of our obligations as world citizens is to help the Chinese to become more sophisticated." Another Sinologist in his own right, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, speaks eloquently of a latent force that may be at work deep in the body of China as a modifying influence-"the pragmatic genius of the Chinese people." These are the people whom Americans have known and befriended for more than a century, in missionary, educational and trade relations...