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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brownell retired to his back-room office and attacked the security problem in a more effective way. His Department of Justice has successfully prosecuted 14 Smith Act cases (22 Communist functionaries are awaiting trial on Smith Act charges). Communist-front organizations have been hard hit (the Jefferson School in Manhattan recently went out of business after its enrollment dropped to 400 from 14,000 in 1946). The Soble spy case was so handled that it brought confessions, not controversy. Such is the Brownell security record that FBI Director John Edgar Hoover, no man to low-rate the threat of Communism...
...less than four months in office, Macmillan has wrought a transformation. From the first, he refused to act like a man with his back to the wall. He put the disaster of Suez firmly behind him, and exuded confidence-in himself and in Britain...
...hands with top-hatted Premier Kishi and his Cabinet, drove off in a gold-decorated black coach drawn by black horses, to lunch with the Emperor and Empress. (The first Australian parliamentarian to shake hands with Hirohito shortly after the war had been condemned in Australia for "a dastardly act.") Glowed the Japan Times: "Mister Menzies has proved himself a man of broad vision and deep understanding." But the Japanese soon found that mincing language is no part of Pig Iron Bob's equipment. Said Menzies: "I've come up here without any reservations, to talk...
...same God . . . and fight for the same flag . . . Wouldn't it have been wonderful [of the 1954 school desegregation ruling] if the church had led the Supreme Court? But the church didn't lead, and it didn't follow. We lack the moral courage to act." For the next two days, on the desegregated Methodist campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers and in the buildings of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, also desegregated, the churchmen sought sources of courage and plans of action...
...undertake agricultural reform and flood-control projects now financed by the Government. But it could replace some of the most controversial part of the foreign-aid program - the 15%-20% devoted to outright economic aid. Private dollars are far more effective than Government grants or loans because they act faster and more directly to stimulate local economies and generate new capital. Businessmen estimate that $1 in private capital does as much work as $3 in Government aid. U.S. firms now operate or make investments in more than 50 foreign countries, have annual foreign sales (including exports) of nearly $50 billion...