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...private war in defense of Dulles was no idle campaign. Like everyone else in Washington, he was well aware that Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Wayne Morse were heading up a group of Democratic liberals pledged to bring down Dulles (TIME, Feb. 4). What concerned Ike more was that he was now getting little help from such responsibles as Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield, who have been alienated by the extravagances of Dulles' hard-sell tactics as he pushed for speedy action...
Eventually Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson worked out an agreement acceptable to the Fulbright boys and the Republican leadership whereby the Senate would probe Middle East policy since Jan. 1, 1946-but only after action had been taken on the President's urgent requests for authority...
...pirouetting. "I don't think we've covered much new ground," sighed one State Department official wearily after Secretary of State Dulles finished another day of fending off his critics on the 30-man combined Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. At one point Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, who had put the stock market into a tail spin by his hazy handling of the 1955 financial hearings, even wanted to let the Eisenhower doctrine and the crisis go hang while he investigated U.S. Middle East policy all the way back...
...Intellectual Wilderness." Dulles scribbled heavily at his doodle pad, his face beet-red, and Rhode Island's ancient (89) Theodore Francis Green suggested impatiently that Bill Fulbright was going far beyond the senatorial province of asking questions. Later Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey took up the Fulbright cause...
Even while Fulbright and his Senate friends were plucking the political fiddle strings, the House of Representatives was moving swiftly-and with point. The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the Eisenhower resolution virtually intact by a 24-to-2 vote, moved it toward the House floor, where overwhelming approval is expected. But the committee report also noted that the resolution failed to meet such "basic"' Middle Eastern problems as Arab-Israeli relations, the Suez Canal dilemma, and the handling of Arab refugees. The House, said the committee, should get on with the business of adopting the Eisenhower resolution...