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Tucked in with EGA, the President's Point Four program, to give technical aid to backward areas and encourage U.S. private investments abroad, squeaked through (37-36) to become duly authorized for the first time by Congress. The Senate voted the $45 million Harry Truman asked for; since the House authorized only $25 million, the difference will have to be fought out in conference...
...Announcer Lapin has been saying that "radio, which is the great discovery of a Russian genius, the mighty weapon of culture and progress, has been transformed in imperialist America into a hotbed of vulgarity and ignorance, into a tool of profitmaking, slander and deceit . . . It is poisoning the politically backward and uncultured people with the virus of chauvinism and militarism...
General Billotte has stated the case so clearly that even the most backward of men (e.g., certain Washington bigwigs) cannot fail to see the danger . . . The facts are startlingly evident, and the methods of meeting them are obvious. Action must be taken soon...
Crippled, propped, cushioned and controlled though it is, the British economy is still the second most productive industrial machine in the Western world. It is as superior to the wrecked or backward economies of France and Germany as ours is to it ... Britain's economy is still predominantly private, autonomous and unpredictable, the sum of many individual business decisions just...
...prestige of Harvard rests not on its conformance either to the status quo or to whatever backward trends might be in governmental favor, but to its maintenance of the principles which have gained for it a reputation of being one of the most liberal and democratic schools of the country. Don Long '49 Chairman, John Reed Club