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The man to watch in Washington these days, as the Atlantic powers drift disjointedly toward Khrushchev’s Summit, is Senator J. William Fulbright, an oracular, humorless, intensely ambitious statesman from the river flats of Arkansas by way of Oxford University’s storied halls. Fulbright intends to use his chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee to rescue United States foreign policy from its “inadequacy” and help the American people, all too few of them beneficiaries of Cecil Rhodes’ scholarship trust, “to grow up—to become more mature, more sophisticated, humble, subtle and wise.”

In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ annual meeting in Washington, wherein Fulbright announced his large intentions, he ceded to the President “day-by-day policy-making” in situations “like that in Berlin.” Not so with the fundamentals. Fulbright added:

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The man to watch in Washington these days, as the Atlantic powers drift disjointedly toward Khrushchev’s Summit, is Senator J. William Fulbright, an oracular, humorless, intensely ambitious statesman from the river flats of Arkansas by way of Oxford University’s storied halls. Fulbright intends to use his chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee to rescue United States foreign policy from its “inadequacy” and help the American people, all too few of them beneficiaries of Cecil Rhodes’ scholarship trust, “to grow up—to become more mature, more sophisticated, humble, subtle and wise.”

In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ annual meeting in Washington, wherein Fulbright announced his large intentions, he ceded to the President “day-by-day policy-making” in situations “like that in Berlin.” Not so with the fundamentals. Fulbright added: