The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-06
BY JAMES THRAsHER NEA Stan Correspondent

kSep. James Wuuam EUkpElRnt. like OW1 Director Elmer Davis, $ a Rhodes scholar who picked up an international outlook at oxford without losing his rural American accent.
 At Pembroke College, oxford, where he took the honors course in modern history, Fullbright started a train of thought that blossomed into the recent fIouse-approved Americas participation in world CO., Americas participation in world CO., operation for world peace. After three years at oxford, the young Rhodes scholar from Arkan- saS traveled for a year on the con- tinent, and studied ct the Univer- sity of Vienna for several months. A foreign correspondent in Vienna at the time recetly recalled a tour through the Balkans that young Fulbright took with him in 1929. What particularly impressed the 24-year-old student on this trip was the fact that Turkey and Greece, sworn enemies for 400 years, were able to live on friendly terms through the wise guidance of their government leaders. President Ata- turk and Premier Venizeloe. It left him with the conviction that @ lot of serious political ills could be cured by intelligent politicians.
 Fulbrght passed this impression along when he became Q law pro- lessor ct his alma mater, the Uni- versit yof Arkansas. This was in 1886, after several years in Wash- ington where he studied and later taught law at George Washington University, and served as @ special attorney in the Department of Jus tice.
 IDEALIST
 Fulbright used to tell his Arkan- sas students that, while the Con- stitution was an admirable docu- ment and our government was founded on noble principles, the personnel that administered the government was weak. The best minds, he insisted, went into busi- ness instead of government because the rewards were greater. But young Professor Fulbright maintained that there were bigger spiritual rewards in helping to run the government well. He urged his students to go into politics.
 This advice backflred on Full bright, which is why he is in Con- gress today. One of his law stu- dents, Clyde Ellis, had dutifully gone into politics and was elected representative from Arkansas third district. Last fall, at the age of 34, Ellis decided to run for senator. He came around and urged Fulbright to practice what he had preached by running for his vacated seat in the House.
 Ellis was beaten in the Demo- cratic primaries (the Ozark equiva- lent of the election), but Fulbright won the nomination with c 4000 plurality. It was the biggest major ity the third district had ever given candidate. His opponent was @ Supreme Coure judge backed by Gov. Homer Arkins, who had bounced Fulbright out of the Uni- versity of Arkansas presidents chair where he had sat for two years, in a l940 political purge of educators.
 You may recall Fulbright's maiden speech on the floor of the House. It came about six weeks after he had been sworn in, and was in reply to an address by another freshman representative. the beauteous Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce.
 SQUELCH
 Mrs. Luce's address was the one in which she coined the now famous word, "globaloney." But Fulbright's reply left the acidulously epigrammatic gentlewoman from Connecticut almost speeches.. About the best she could do by way of rebuttal was to give Fulbright Q grammatical chiding for using infer" where he should have said imply"
 Fulbright made a hit with his colleagues. One southern represen- tative, 10-year veteran, told him 1t was the best speech he had ever heard on the floor of the House. Fulbright was afraid that some members might think him pretty cocky. But the handsome, 3S-year- old Arkansan isn't the cocky kind.
 He built up backlog of admira- tion and respect that carried over to his introduction of his world peace resolution in the Foreign Af- fairs Committee. No cocky freshman could have steered that resolution to a 360-to-29 victory in the House, no matter how admirable its senti- mentS.