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Both in & out of the Pentagon, Washington has been talking of the need for revision of the 1947 National Security Act ever since it was last patched by Congress nearly four years ago. But even the most ardent advocates of revision hesitated to throw debate open for the pulling and hauling of the individual services and their congressional spokesmen. Eisenhower's decision to present his proposals in the form of a "reorganization plan" was perhaps his happiest stroke, since a reorganization plan 1) cannot be amended by Congress, 2) is not likely to involve committee hearings, and 3) automatically...
...Swiss-born druggist and a Guatemalan mother, Arbenz, now 39, is a dry, dogmatic professional officer who taught at the national military academy before he joined the army junta that fought and won the revolution. He took office with relatively little political experience and a few burning obsessions: ardent nationalism, a conviction that the country's worst problems can be solved by drastic land reforms, a deep-seated hatred of "foreign monopolies," i.e., United Fruit Co. and other U.S.-owned firms operating in Guatemala. No Communist himself, he nevertheless accepted the Communists around him at their face value...
Ohio thus has little priority in choice for Statehood than is two rivals. Of course, central location is a big factor, for closing the gap between the Atlantic Seaboard and the Pacific frontier has always been an ardent hope for all Americans. But a hasty decision based merely on location may lead to disagreement and possible civil dissentation. Only through the reports of investigating parties can Congress accurately study and legislate the tricky problem of Ohio an Statehood...
...Empire, Christianity's appeal was not that of a heavenly salvation after death, but of the coming of a heavenly ordained society of brotherly sharing right here upon our common earth-and of the resurrection of the faithful dead to share in it. That hope met the same ardent response then as the not wholly dissimilar Communist hope meets among the dispossessed today. But the basic Christian methods of overcoming evil with active goodness was and is in diametrical opposition to the Communist methods . . The one method helps create the world it reams of; the other destroys...
...Trujillo had discovered at U.N. that there was no ardent welcome for an envoy who also happened to be the unsavory dean of Western Hemisphere dictators; he needed an excuse for a graceful exit from stage center. Fellow Dictator Joseph Stalin died just in time to provide it. "The developments of the past few days within the Soviet Union," Trujillo announced importantly, forced him to quit the U.N. and head for home to serve as Foreign Minister (for his dummy-President, brother Hector). He left the impression that in the days of confusion and tumult sure to follow Stalin...