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firmly brought II up ct the regular
meetings and finally the whole COM
mittee. Republicans q we1l q
Democrats, approved It. It was re-
ported In June and could have been
adopted then II such Willy Re-
publican and experienced legisIatOr
as Representative James w. WAds-
worth OF New York had not seen
the advantage Of Z nonpartiaan
vote. Wadsworth pointed out to-
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority
Leader John Mccormack that 60
TO % Republicans would vote
against It purely on PARTISAN
grounds II put to IN immediate
vote, He recommended I roll call
IN the autumn. To assure I bigger
and . nonpartisAn majority, Full
bright agreed. The vote was delayed
until sitter the Republican confer
ence on Mackinac Island. The
meager opposition came almost en-
tirely from the die-hard .isola-
ticnists."
Falhrisht considers this resolu-
ton only . step toward world CO.
operation. It was an important
move for American participation in
q postwar international oryanisa-
ton.
Born In Missouri
Fulbtight was born In Sumner,
Charlton County, In north central
Missouri, on April .. 1905. When
he was child. his moderately we'll
to-do parents moved to Arkansas
and became prominent In Fayette-
vile. One Of his sisters, who at
tended the University of Missouri,
married Kenneth Teasdale, st. Louis
lawyer.
Bill" Fulbright attended the Uni
versity OF Arkansas, where he played
right halfback on the football team.
Awarded q Rhodes scholarship from
Arkansas, he studied political
science and history at Oxford Uni
versity, England, and was q MEM
Der Of the Oxford Cambridge
lacrosse team which toured this
country In 1926. Oxford awarded
him Q B. A. degree in 1928 and an
M. A. degree In 1881. In 1929 he
spent q year in Vienna, where he
made friends with M. w. Fodor,
correspondent for the Manchester
Guardian. The pair made . trip
Of several months through the Bal
kan countries.
Returning to the United States,
Fulbright studied law at George
Washington University here and
graduated with honors. Admitted
to the District Of Columbia bar,
he Joined the Department Of Justice
Antitrust Section. He left the fol-
lowing year to take an instructor
ship In law at @. W., which he held
for two years. He transferred from
this instructorship to one at the
University Of Arkansas, from which
position he was elevated to the
university presidency.
In addition to his concern about
Arkansas affairs, such as the power
possibilities Of the White River,
Fulbright's principle interest, next
to winning the war. has been. In
trying to create machinery to keep
the peace. At present he Is eager to
see some postwar organization es-
tablished to rehabilitate education
in Europe.
Mr.. Fulbright would like to be in
the Senate during the postwar
period to do something to bring
peace to this country and the world
for the next so or 100 years. Within
that time, he thinks. the peoples Of
the world can be educated for peace
and develop . determination and
spirit necessary to make peace ef-
fective.
He realizes that he has a hard
primary fight ahead of him. He
has gone into politics not in the
spirit of the professional or unreal
istic do-gooders but with the hope
that he can represent the State of
Arkansas where the national and
international decisions are made.
(Printed-by Special Advancement with the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch)