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...thirty-four nations signed a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1947 to provide a meeting-ground for the settlement of trade disputes. Although GATT has been a step toward cooperation, its forums meet only once a year and many settlements in the past have been only ineffective bi-lateral agreements. Because no international agency supervises administration of the compacts, disputes often arise. The plan for an Organization for Trade Cooperation, currently before Congress, offers some support for GATT's rather shaky foundations. OTC would serve as a "continuous mechanism" for discussion of disputes and administration of GATT trade...
...State Department gave heartening support to the ideal of bi-partisanship last week. Only a month ago, Secretary Dulles presented his fellow Republicans with an opportunity to scourge the entire Democratic Party when he obligingly released the Yalta documents. On Friday the Secretary went to the other extreme, however, and did his best to gratify a single Democratic congressman, Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania. Dulles' decision involved the incidental loss of his own special adviser on immigration problems, Edward J.Corsi, but the Secretary made the sacrifice without flinching, for the greater cause of good relations with a member...
...implications for the future, the State Department's action is even more disturbing. The government has once again made political strife over foreign policy the order of the day. But each succeeding step away from the ideal of bi-partisanship is harder to retrace than the last, until finally the point of no return is reached. Publication of the documents over British protests, moreover, has unnecessarily angered out best friends in Europe for the sake of a domestic police advantage. And France and Germany have been aroused at a time when our efforts to weld both countries into the western...
Three members of the Yearbook staff resigned yesterday to publish a bi-weekly pictorial magazine called "The Harvard...
Seven graduate students, three of whom are instructors in Gen. Ed, Ahf, announced last night they will publish a new bi-weekly poetry magazine called "Audience." The first edition will be issued on Friday and will sell for five cents...