The Congress: Bill's Baedeker

THE CONGRESS

Arkansas Democrat James William Fulbright is a professional man of the world. Chairman of the great Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is widely traveled, points with vast pride to the Oxford degree that he won as a Rhodes scholar, is father of the scholarship plan that bears his name and has enabled 24,000 Americans to widen their horizons in studies abroad.

It was, therefore, all the more astonishing that Fulbright last week came up with a gratuitous pronouncement more to be expected of an Arkansas "hawg caller" than of a responsible and influential student of world affairs. In a lengthy...