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Show i Page Two FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1960 THE SALT LAKE TIMES deltind lite Jdeadiined A political- - "hot potato" still is being tossed all over Wash-ington, since President Eisen-hower's news conference over a week ago. And that is the sug-gestion that the President should take a leading Democrat with him to the May Summit meeting in Paris. The suggestion is hardly new. Each time the President is about to take any new step in world affairs, the same question can be relied upon to come up. This very fact might even reflect a feeling that, perhaps there could be more bipartisanism in the conduct of the nation's foreign policies than there often seems to be. U.S. had a united foreign policy. Harry Truman was urged by most. With their historic feud continuing, the President said in effect that there was "no room" on his plane. At his more recent news con-ference, however, the President was again asked if he would consider including a Democrat in on the Summit talks with the Russians and to the surprise of many, the President said this time that he might. The President went on to say, however, that the Democrat he might consider including would be from Congress. This auto-matically eliminated such lead-ing opposition leaders as former President Trcman or his ex-Secret-of State, Dean Acheson, who, while prominent in shaping Democratic foreign policy, have been critical of Administration foreign policies, anyway. It also eliminated Adlai Stevenson, as he's not in the Senate either, but is also "freelancing." Of the Congressional Democrats the President said he might con-sider one only if the questions expected to come up at the Sum-mit meeting with the Russians should involve any treaties, which the Democratic controlled Senate would be asked to ratify. But the President hastily added that he didn't expect any treaty making problems to develop that would require strong Democratic support in the Senate. Having narrowed the field to "Congressional Democrats" only if a treaty is involved, his stress on the bipartisan support needed for treaty ratification further narrows it to the Senate, since it, rather than the House, per-forms the Constitutional treaty ratification function. Which of the Democratic Senators then? You would think that the many Presidential hopefuls in the Senate, i.e., Senators Ken-nedy, Humphrey, Johnson, Sym-ington, etc., would leap at the opportunity to bask in the spot-light. But all said at least, they wouldn't be interested even if asked. Actually, all Democrats fear that any participation in Summitry could rob them of Hheir freedom to criticize GOP's campaign "peace issue." Many Republicans don't wish to share what they believe is a winning theme with the Democrats. If any Democrat should be asked to accompany the Presi-dent, the odds favor Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, since he could go "out of duty" as chair-man of the key Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Since Ful-bright is not a White House hope-ful himself, none of his colleague candidates would seek to scuttle the trip. Secretary of State Her-te- r, a close friend, also favors Fulbright's participation. A real irony of this is that, should Fulbright bask in the Summit's limelight, his political stock back home in Arkansas could be expected to soar. This complicates plans of Arkansas' Gov. Orval Faubus and Win-thri- p Rockefeller, brother of the New York governor, and head of the Arkansas Economic De-velopment Commission. Each has his eye on Fulbright's seat in 1962, and would face a harder time in opposing "a man who helped the President make peace" if Fulbright should be-come the President's "Arkansas Traveler." Indeed, while the President's own Republican party was so long on the outside, before the Eisenhower name swept the GOP back into the White House in 1952, it had become Democratic practice to include many key Republicans in on the formula-tion of American foreign policy, or at least, in carrying it out. There was criticism of this by many Republicans as well as Democrats. But such towering Republican figures as General Eisenhower, himself, who played a major postwar diplomatic role as Supreme Commander of the NATO; the late John Foster Dulles, who served the State Department as a key advisor on Asia, Paul Hoffman, wha headed the Marshall Plan, and Harold Stassen, who served as a United Nations advisor, are only a few "name" Republicans who served with distinction ... in helping to formulate foreign policy during the Roosevelt and Truman Ad-ministrations. Although he was considered "nonpolitical" at the time, New York's Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller also served both Democratic Presidents, as well as President Eisenhower, with distinction in the realm of for-eign affairs. But accepting greater, even historic responsibilities under the Opposition, were former President Herbert Hoover, who performed chores for Truman and the late Wendell Willkie, unsuccessful Republican presi-dential candidate An 1940, who performed several wartime mis-sions for FDR. The name of the late Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan is al-most a lasting symbol of bipar-tisan, non-politic- al approach to foreign affairs. In contrast, many Democrats complain that the Eisenhower administration now boasts of no one of the opposition party who is as closely identified with either formulating or carrying out foreign policy. This freedom from responsibility also invites partisan attack. President Eisenhower had, for a short time in 1956, a close re-lationship with t'-- e late Demo-cratic Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, whom he named US Ambassador to NATO before he died. And for a few short weeks in 1957, following the crisis cre-ated by the launching of the Soviet Sputnik earth satellites, twice defeated Democratic presi-dential contender Adlai Steven-son served as a White House aide for NATO, although each com-plained of the other's "lack of coordination" and Stevenson de-parted. But there has no no one since. Before leaving on his goodwill trip abroad in December, the President was again urged to bring a top Democrat along with him to show the world that the Murray Broadcaster Off to Switzerland F. William Houghtaling, pro-gram director of KMUR radio, has departed for a two week va-cation in Switzerland, courtesy of the watchmakers of Switzer-land. Houghtaling and his wife will be the watchmakers' guests on a grand tour of Switzerland. This is his first place prize in the annual NARAS DJ Granny contest. He along with more than 1000 other disc jockeys, submit-ted a balolt showing his choice for the 34 different awards. After the entries wer judged by Has-kin- s and Sells, his ballot was declared most nearly correct and he was named national winner. The Grammy Awards were presented on NBC Television in November on a program spon-sored by the watchmakers of Switzerland. The Mormon Tab-ernacle Choir of Salt Lake City made an appearance on the tele-cast and received an award. While in Switzerland, Hough-taling is tape recording special broadcasts to be flown back to the U. S. by Swissair for broad-cast over KMUR. Houghtaling has been tagged as "Utah's Goodwill Ambassador to Switzerland"; he will be on the radio in Switzerland and will bring the Swiss top tunes back to the U. S. to be played over KMUR on his return. 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