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...massacre the whites-the major excuse in the first place for the wave of repression that had so far killed 50 Nyasa blacks but no whites. Neither had anybody proved that the blacks of Northern Rhodesia were about to set up a "Murder Inc.," as Governor Sir Arthur Benson alleged. Lord Perth. Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, arriving from London on a visit, announced that he had no doubt whatsoever that such a plot existed. But when asked whether he had seen the evidence, Lord Perth haughtily shifted position: "I believe it when a governor says something...
Such shocking figures, just compiled, started to pour last week from the office of Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams. With the help of browbeaten Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson (TIME, March 2), Williams proved once again the case he made last session...
...Benson-approved proposals to set upper limits on subsidies to the big farms. Totting up the biggest outlays, he found that ten large operators siphoned off $3,447,902.81 in price-prop money, $557,495-35 in soil-bank funds. By comparison, 1,227 farmers in tiny Delaware altogether drew but $917,286 from the soil bank. "The high rigid support program is little more than a Government guarantee on the operations of corporate-type farming," charged Williams, "and actually encourages and underwrites absentee ownership to the detriment of small farmers...
...looks as though we need a Moses in this field," said Chairman Ellender to Witness Benson. Other committee members, Republicans as well as Democrats, made it plain that they did not see Bible-quoting Mormon Apostle Benson as the needed Moses. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington charged Benson with trying to "lick this problem with phrases." North Dakota Republican Milton R. Young rumbled that the lower wheat supports requested by Benson "would break every wheat farmer...
...long since ceased to be a problem to be settled by so-called farm experts. It is a $7 billion drain on the national treasury in a day when the Administration is scratching for money to buy missiles. Whether the Agriculture Secretary's name is Brannan or Benson -or Moses-the farm subsidy problem has become an ever-growing national problem with a direct effect on the national welfare...