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...change ran into some hot Senate opposition. Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker called the agreement "a callous disregard" of the rights of U.S. servicemen. Suppose, he warned, an American were tried for a minor violation before a Communist French judge, or a Moslem magistrate who sentenced according to Islamic law.* A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits. A conscripted soldier is subjected to a law he may have had neither duty nor opportunity to learn, and no share in making...
Where the Issue Stands. When the Bricker Resolution popped up in the 83rd Congress, Dwight Eisenhower and his Cabinet took a hard look at it and decided to fight it. Secretary Dulles and other Eisenhower officials last April rode up to Capitol Hill to appear before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Crux of their arguments: this is no time to throw a monkey wrench into the country's foreign-relations machinery. There is no need for safeguards against such treaties as the Human Rights Covenant, said Dulles, because the Administration does "not intend to become a party to any such...
...Bricker was not softened, but he did try to get around some of the Administration's objections by rewriting his resolution. The Administration was still far from satisfied. Last week Eisenhower & Co. and Bricker & Co. were huddling in a search for words that would satisfy both sides. They were not likely to find a formula. The President is determined to fight any amendment that would seriously damage either the country's foreign-relations machinery or the balance between the executive and legislative powers...
...Administration does not argue that the Bricker Amendment is totally pointless. It recognizes the same danger that worries Bricker and his supporters. But it contends that the present scope of the treaty-making power is necessary and that the nation has a safeguard in the requirement that treaties must be approved by the President and two-thirds of the Senators. As Secretary Dulles said in his testimony: "It takes quite an artist to amend the Constitution . . . The men who wrote it did a very good...
...arrangement the authors rejected in 1787, voting down a motion-the Bricker Amendment of its day-that no treaty would be binding "which is not ratified...