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Suddenly the slumbering Senate Committee on Foreign Relations lurched out of its doze. Fortnight ago its Chairman, Tom Connally, a minor statesman from Texas, announced that the Committee would do nothing about the Fulbright Resolution or any other postwar resolution. But energetic Senator Joseph Ball, of B 2 H 2 ,* now threatened: unless the Committee acted in "a reasonable time" (say, 30 days), he would force a showdown by tacking that Resolution on to some bill. Newspapers hammered away at the Committee, and Committee members found stacks of angry letters on their desks. Franklin Roosevelt, who shows no desire...
Last week that fact was dramatically plain. By a thumping nonpartisan majority, (360-to-29) the House had passed the Fulbright Resolution, pledging the U.S. to carry its full load in postwar international relations (TIME, June...
...chairman is an old political gas burner, Texas' Tom Connally. For 28 weeks this Committee had drowsed over a batch of postwar resolutions, including the highly publicized B²H². Connally now called his Committee together, emerged with a statement that it would not report out the Fulbright Resolution either...
...Some say that the Mackinac Charter is too indefinite in details. Let them hunt for details in the so-called Atlantic Charter. Let them hunt for details in the able exposition of the Secretary of State one week ago. Let them hunt for details in the well-known Fulbright Resolution (see col. one). Let them hunt for greater details in any pronouncement by any other great political party. They will hunt in vain...
...months ago the Fulbright Resolution, pledging U.S. postwar cooperation, would have thrown the House into an uproar. Congressmen feared it as a bold proposal. Now it seemed to be a very mild little document, less specific even than the Republican foreign policy adopted at Mackinac (TIME, Sept. 20). This week it was set to slide through the House with a whoop...