Evening star., 1944-07-16

He lives on = small farm near Fay
etteyille.
II his career In the House is an In
dication Of future activity. Fllbrisht
would soon make = name for himself
in the Senate. OF all the first-termers
In the Seventy eighth Congress, he has
become the most widely and fayorably
known for congressional accomplish
ment. This spring he was selected by
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull to head
an American delegation to London
Conference of the Allied Ministers Of
Education Of II nations. On the nomi-
nation Of the Belgian delegation, he was
unanimously chosen chairman of the
conference. This meeting drafted
preliminary constitution for United
Nations organization for educat tional
reconstruction designed to rebuild war
wrecked educational institutions and to
promote the free exchange OF ideas
among nations. The State Department
Is expected to send to Congress soon a
report on this meeting with recommends
tions for American participation In this
postwar agency.
Fulbright was chosen for this mis-
sion because Of his educational back
ground and his authorship of the famous
55-word, one-sentence resolution he in
troduced in the House last year ex-
pressing congressional approval of
American participation on a postwar
international organization to preserve
the peace.
Famous 55-Word Policy.
This brief statement, which the House
approved September 81 by tire over
whelming majority of 800 to 20, simply
provided:
Resolved by the House of Represen-
tatives (the Senate concurrine), that
the Congress hereby expresses itself as
favoring the creation of appropriate in
ternational machinery with power ade-
quate to establish and to maintain q
just and lasting peace among the ma
tions of the world. and as tavoring
participation by the United States
therein. through its constitutional
processes"
The only amendment made by his
colleagues was phrase, through Its con-
stltutional processes"
When asked how long it had taken
him to draft the simple resolution, Full
bright replied: Fifteen years of study
went into its preparations; the actual
writing was easy" His personal pref
erence was for more definite and far
reaching statement but he also wanted
to get as much support as possible for
international cooperation.
Fulbright had attracted attention OF
the House Democratic leadership during
the first two months of his freshman"
year. Another freshman" Mrs. Glare
Boothe Luce, the brilliant, beautiful
and belligerent Republican Congress
woman from Connecticut, had coveted
q place on the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. When it was denied her, she
made her famous "globaloney" speech
directed at Vice President Wallace and
his postwar ideals. A week after this
speech, the young Arkansan who is
something Of an Adonis, replied with
outward chivalry but with inward fire.
He charged that Mrs. Luce's own post.
war program was "a narrow, Imperial
istic policy of grab" He invited Mrs.
Luce to question him and there were
a few caustic verbal exchanges. The
contest was generally considered a draw,
with Fulbright scoring on postwar plans
and Mrs. Luce scoring points on Full
bright's choice of words.
Another demonstration of unorthodox
courage was his vote against continu-
alton of the Dies Un-American Investi-
eating Committee. Legislative veterans
warned him that this was a mistake,
that his vote might even defeat him.
so what?" he replied. Maybe I'll
be here only for two years.
The young man proved himself an
able negotiator in the Foreign Affairs
Committee. Most persons who knew
about 1t thought his postwar resolution
tSee FULBR1GHT, Page C-3)