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...Beecher's article under the heading "Brass Tacks: Pakistan Palaver," published in the Harvard CRIMSON of November 12, is a remarkable performance. He appears merely to have gathered up bits of information many of which are, to say the least inaccurate. His conclusions are drawn from what are, on closer examination very slim premises...
First of all, take the question of U. S. aid to underdeveloped countries. In the search for a generalization, Mr. Beecher has assumed some sort of a cause and effect relationship between military aid and what he is pleased to call the appearance of military dictatorships. It is enough to cite the example of Burma which was not receiving military aid to refute this. Nor is a change in the form of government peculiar to underdeveloped countries. Rather, it is in an oversimplification to think of the political situation in a country receiving aid in the terms which...
...many other developed countries. Karachi is an over-crowded city because, apart from the fact that it was chosen as the seat of central government on securing independence, it has received and is still receiving a large influx of refugees from India. As regards the Kashmir issue, Mr. Beecher, who would not have President Mohammed Ayub Khan "intransigent," himself appears to support the intransigence of those who have successfully resisted the various efforts made by the United Nations to hold a free and impartial plebiscite in order to ascertain the wishes of the Kashmiri people whether they would like...
...Chicago Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement, at a meeting over a lakefront store just one street away from gangland's "Hairtrigger Block." By the end of the first year, the organization had grown to 355 members, chalked up (thanks to traveling Preacher Henry Ward Beecher's drawing power) the tidy profit...
TIME'S Arkansas story sounds like a collaboration between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Beecher Stowe as rewritten by a Hearst editor...