The Awakening

Suddenly the slumbering Senate Committee on Foreign Relations lurched out of its doze. Fortnight ago its Chairman, Tom Connally, a minor statesman from Texas, announced that the Committee would do nothing about the Fulbright Resolution or any other postwar resolution. But energetic Senator Joseph Ball, of B₂H₂,* now threatened: unless the Committee acted in "a reasonable time" (say, 30 days), he would force a showdown by tacking that Resolution on to some bill. Newspapers hammered away at the Committee, and Committee members found stacks of angry letters on their desks. Franklin Roosevelt, who shows no desire to let peacemaking out of his hands, decided it was time to let the Committee get off the spot. Promptly Minor Statesman Connally announced that his Committee would report out "a" postwar resolution.

This will be an entirely new statement. It will not be the House's bipartisan Fulbright Resolution. Nor will it be B₂H₂, which specifically commits the U.S. to an international police force. The President had advised against any specific statement, and to cautious Tom Connally his advice was hardly necessary.

*The Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill Resolution (TIME, March 22).

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