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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic agreement under which Russia will help Burma build factories, begin irrigation projects and undertake farm development in return for long-term payments in Burmese rice. The U.S., which has a rice surplus of its own, has not been able to get together with Burma on any such deal...
...World Bank mulled over Nasser's request for a loan. It wanted guarantees that the dam was feasible, that Egyptian finance was stable, and that there would be no graft. Not until Russia recently charged forward with an offer of $300 million for the Aswan Dam did things begin to stir in Washington. The U.S. decided at last to underwrite the Egyptian investment...
Recently in these columns David L. Halberstam '55 presented a well-documented review of the segregation problem entitled "The Negro in the South." He might have been more accurate, however, had he entitled his three pieces "The White in the South." His observations begin with a conscientious appraisal of segregation, but they soon degenerate into an only slightly veiled apology for white supremacy...
...justice for a Negro in the South if we interpret justice to mean a minimum amount of fairness. I need not pursue this point any further; the legal history of the south in relation to its Negro inhabitants leaves little room for quibbling here. The interested reader may well begin, on this point, with Chief Justice Taney's 1854 decision in the Dred-Scott case...
While the gift will just begin to raise teachers' buying power to pre-war levels, it shows where further gifts are most needed. In giving the recipients control of the funds, the group has set an important precedent. The Ford Foundation is to be congratulated both for its gift and the way it chose to make...