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of the important international
matters now under discussion.
| Blames Dulles.
The Ohio Senator blamed Sec
rotary of State Dulles for the
breakdown of negotiations for a
compromise. He said that for
several months Attorney General
Brownell tried to find a suitable
text. but that Mr.. Dulles was
less receptive"
mo reasonable compromise
appealed to Mr.. Dulles" Senator
Bricker added.
Senator Bricker also brought
up again the speech Mr.. Dulles
made at Louisville, KY. in April.
1852, nearly a year before he
became Secretary of State.
He quoted Mr.. Dulles as hav-
ing said then that under the
Constitution treaties become the
supreme law of the land, and are
more supreme than ordinary
laws. He said Mr.. Dulles also
declared treaties can cut across
the rights give nthe people by
their constitutional Bill of
Rights"
Fears World Government.
Senator Bricker centered his
fire on the danger of subordinat-
ing American sovereignty to a
world government through yari-
Gus covenants drawn up in the
United Nations. The admins
tration has assured Congress it
has no intention, however, Of
submitting these covenants to
the Senate for ratification.
Senator Bricker declared that
only in Mexico and possibly in
France do treaties become inter-
nal law without legislative ac-'
ton.
The Ohio Senator also in
jected the name of Alger Hiss
into the debate. He said Hiss
was one of six lawyers who
wrote a brief which the Aneri-
can Association for the United
Nations filed in the Supreme
Court about six years ago on
the proposition that two sections
of the U. N. charter had trans
formed the fundamental human
rights of the American people
from matters of purely domes-
tic concern to matterss of inter-
national concern"
Hiss, former State Depart
ment. is serving a prison term
| for perjury.
Preserves Procedure.
The George substitute plan
preserves the traditional method
of ratifying treaties by a two.
thirds vote of the Senate
alone. Neither the House nor
State legislatures would have to
pass on them. as administration
supporters fear would be the case
under the Bricker plan.
! But the George plan would re-
quire action by both branches Of
Congress If any President should
attempt to change internal law
in the United States by execu-
tive agreements, which do not
go to the Senate for ratification.
Senator George said this elm
mates the part of the Bricker
plan on which the administra-
ton has centered its opposition.
That part is the (which" clause
in the Bricker text stating that
a treaty shall become effective
as internal law in the United
States only through legislation
which would be valid in the ep-
Sence of a treaty.
Other Developments.
Other developments as the de-
bate finally got under way were:
/. Senator Butler, Republican,
of Maryland made the first
speech in support of the Bricker
plan, announcing he is unable
to agree with President Eisen-
hower'S objections to it.
2. Senator Wiley, Republican,
Of Wisconsin took the floor to
oppose the Bricker plan and to
deny that those who oppose it
want foreigners to dictate do
nestle law in the United States.
3. Senator Morse, Independ-
ent, Of Oregon. who left the Re-
publican Party in 1852, said he
is sorry to see his former Re-
publican colleagues committing
fratricide." He said he wants
to oppose a live Republican
Party, not q dead one, so I think
I am doing them q good turn
by moving to send the Bricker
plan back to committee"
f. Representative Franklin D.
Roosevelt, jr.. Democrat, of New
York, took the floor in the
House to oppose any change in
the treaty-making power. He
said the present attack on the
treaty process emanates from IAN
extreme isolationist group which
hates the United Nations and
wants to secede from the
Twentieth Century"
S. Senator H. Alexander
Smith, Republican, of New Jer-
sey. and Thye, Republican, of
minnesota, both original spon-