The Liberal Line

In the course of a typical week, the Liberal propaganda machine’s ever-dependable Washington Post

— adopted a line on the new version of the Bricker Amendment: It is a “shabby substitute for the crippling amendment . . . the Senate previously rejected,” and thus constitutes a “threat” calling for “all the opposition the Administration can muster against it.” Concretely, it would “narrow the treaty-making power down to the scope of the Federal legislative power,” and would, accordingly, “impose restraints which the founding fathers wisely refused to impose.” As “custodian of the powers of the Presidency,” the Post concludes, Eisenhower cannot possibly accept the new version.

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In the course of a typical week, the Liberal propaganda machine’s ever-dependable Washington Post

— adopted a line on the new version of the Bricker Amendment: It is a “shabby substitute for the crippling amendment . . . the Senate previously rejected,” and thus constitutes a “threat” calling for “all the opposition the Administration can muster against it.” Concretely, it would “narrow the treaty-making power down to the scope of the Federal legislative power,” and would, accordingly, “impose restraints which the founding fathers wisely refused to impose.” As “custodian of the powers of the Presidency,” the Post concludes, Eisenhower cannot possibly accept the new version.