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Some old-fashioned logrolling also helped. Two days before the vote, Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley, long a Seaway project man, got his Foreign Relations Committee to approve a $3,000,000 survey for the long-dormant Passamaquoddy Tidal Power project on the Maine-New Brunswick border. Coincidental result: Maine's Senators Margaret Chase Smith and Frederick Payne backed the St. Lawrence Seaway. Last month Interior Secretary Douglas McKay came out for the billion-dollar Colorado River Storage project. Coincidental result: the support of Colorado's powerful Eugene Millikin, along with other Senators from the five Colorado...
...vast charity whose original object was to find food and shelter for the thousands of homeless children wandering lost in her land. Her impassioned pleas for her pet causes seldom fell on deaf ears. "If you could have a vote taken at this minute," said Wisconsin's Senator Wiley after hearing Frederika talk at dinner one night, "you would get the American aid to Greece doubled...
...Change in Heart." Last January, a month before his 65th birthday, Dulles finally achieved his long-sought goal. When he came up before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for confirmation as Secretary of State, Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley asked him if he had in mind any specific changes in U.S. foreign policy. Dulles squinted at the ceiling, then said: "Well, I think the change that is most needed is a change in heart." By last week John Foster Dulles' accomplishments in office left little doubt that U.S. foreign policy had undergone such a change-and that...
...Round Table. Confronted by positive proof that time was running out. what could the U.S. do? One possible course of action was quickly suggested at the United Nations by U.S. delegate Alexander Wiley, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. New soundings should be taken, he said, on the chances of negotiating a workable scheme of international atomic control with the Russians. Wiley's proposal merited cool-headed consideration. One reason: no one has yet disproved the theory that the Russians, faced with imminent cracks behind their Iron Curtain, may be looking for a long cold-war breathing spell...
Then he lashed out at Washington. "The partisans of a tough policy . . . openly urge, as does Senator Wiley, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that the U.S. should present to the Soviet Union a number of ultimatum demands, and that these should be supported by force . . . We shall reply to Senator Wiley . . . without going into details: 'You started dancing on the wrong foot, Cousin...