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Show United States Senator from Utah "We emphasize that the spirit of consultation has been and is now totally lacking. Some members have been called to the White House but only for notification on decisions already reached." International affairs do not often directly concern me, but I was disturbed by the former president's comments, which were not untypical untypi-cal of him. The truth is Pres. Eisenhower has said publicly and privately that he would never consider a move into Indo-China nor anywhere else without consulting members of congress, giving all of them the full facts. Wallace F. Bennett BENNETT'S BRIEFS UPPER COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT . . . Strategy on the Upper Colorado River bill now seems to be: get it past the Senate so it can pass the House. Rep. William A. Dawson has done a commendable job in getting the bill through the house interior committee com-mittee by the narrowest of margins. mar-gins. Sen. Arthur V. Watkins and I now have the responsibilty of getting Sen. Eugene Milliken (R., Colo.) to hold Senate Hearings. tfo one knows more than I that it will not be simple to get full congressional authorization of the project but all we have ever promised prom-ised is that we'll do our best. To date it looks hopeful. COMJIERCIAL S P O NSORS FOR TV HEARINGS . . . I've introduced a Senate Resolution calling for an end to commercial sponsorship of broadcast or televised tele-vised Senate committee hearings. This is not an attempt to keep from the public those things it should see and hear. I respect the right of the people to know what we in Washington are doing, but I resent anyone putting a brand name or a price tag on my Senate activity. BI-PARTISAN FOREIGN POLICE POL-ICE . . . Ex-Pres. Truman has suggested sug-gested in a widely publicized speech before the National Press Club that the Eisenhower administration has kept facts of foreign affairs from Democrats in Congress. I remember well how Mr. Truman Tru-man treated Capitol Hill at the time of the Korean War. On Saturday, Sat-urday, June 24, 1950, news reached Washington that the North Korean invasion had begun. Mr. Truman was out of town and congress had recessed for the week end. The following Sunday and Monday, Mr Truman had consulted with members mem-bers of his cabinet, had acted on s motion by Dean Acheson to senc the Navy and Air Force into ac tion, had ordered Gen. Dougla: MacArthur to send arms, munition: and supplies to South Korea an had issued a press release on hi: actions. Not until Tuesday, June 27, 1950 at 10:30 a. m., did Mr. Truman si much as consult with congress I Republicans or Democrats on th most important decision he'd hai to make since Hiroshima. Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) who was GOP chairman 0 the Foreign Relations committei and who died soon after I enterec the Senate, said in 1947: "The firs I ever heard of the Greco-Turkisl policy was when the president dis closed his thoughts 10 days ago a the White House." In the sami year he said: "I have never beer consulted about the Chinese polic; or the Pan-American policy 01 many other policies." The late Sen. Robert A. Ttaf (R., O.) and Rep. Joseph W. Mar. I tin Jr., (R., Mass.) said in 1950 |