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"WHAT MAKES U.S. FOREIGN POLICY"

Address by Senator J. William Fulbright
At 10th Anniversary Banquet of The Reporter Magazine 
Overseas Press Club New York City
[Apr. 16, 1959]

So many things honored in our time are themselves without 
honor, that it is all the more pleasurable to join the Overseas Press 
Club as it gives Max Ascoli the recognition that has long been overdue 
him.
I know that it sounds incongruous to speak of aristocracy in 
a democracy. Yet in the exact Greek sense of the word — meaning 
"the best" — it is very much in place to say that the magazine Max 
Ascoli built in ten short years has been a stronghold of aristocratic 
values in our society. Every issue of the Reporter does something 
to restore discussion itself to the democratic process. Every issue 
re-enacts in language the tremendous fact that the democratic process 
is a highly exacting, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, but always 
a supremely demanding experience. I often feel that the contributors 
to this magazine are regularly summoned by Max Ascoli to take an oath 
of office, reading to this effect: "I do solemnly swear that in the 
high cause of democracy, I will uphold, defend and protect the integrity 
of the word, and that to the best of my ability, I will use words in 
such ways that they will stand as one with the things they are meant 
to describe."
Max Ascoli has himself said of the Reporter that it was an 
"experiment in adult journalism". I would add that it is an experiment 
in "unadulterated journalism". For its bite is a solid one. It has 
no pets and no client interests. It is known as a liberal magazine.