1. For a fuller account of Taft’s position see J. T. Patterson, Mr Republican: A Biography of Robert Taft (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) especially pp. 474–96.
2. Quoted in M. Bundy (ed), The Pattern of Responsibility (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952) p. 86.
3. H. B. Shill III, ‘Senate Activism and Security Commitments: The Troops-To-Europe and National Commitments Resolutions’, PhD dissertation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1973) pp. 149–51.
4. W. Lippmann, ‘Mr Truman and the Constitution’ reproduced in Congressional Record, 16 January 1951, pp. 313–14.
5. See A. Schlesinger Jr, ‘Congress and the Making of American Foreign Policy’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 51, no. 1 (October 1972) 78–113 at p. 95.