"It's your move, Mr. President." So spoke Joe Ball, ablest young Republican internationalist, Senator from Minnesota, the Bi of the B2H2 group in the Senate.*
Looking squarely at the White House, and speaking squarely about foreign policy, Senator Ball bluntly demanded in the Saturday Evening Post: "Let the Congress know what is going on" −or this peace will be botched.
The President also heard, and at close range, from an even more potent voice: the Federal Council of Churches. Long ago the Federal Council had laid down its own basic propositions ("Six Pillars") for a "just and durable peace." Now, this late in...