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...went, the U.S.-Russia cultural exchange agreement went a good way. But measured against the idea-or even the U.S. Government's original minimum conditions-it left much to be desired. It failed to 1) bind the Russians to stop jamming U.S. news broadcasts into Russia, 2) give the U.S. some minimum uncensored access to Russia's controlled press and radio and television to match the uncensored play Russia gets daily in the U.S., or 3) stop Russia from declaring much of its country off base to U.S. visitors, a ban that is reciprocated...
Once Nehru found use for the Lion. Then the Sheik was Nehru's honored comrade in the fight against the British, and the powerful leader who could bind largely Moslem Kashmir to the new Indian nation in 1947. Abdullah became the state of Kashmir's first Premier and symbolized the ability of Moslems and Hindus to believe in one another. But as Jawaharlal Nehru, in his hardening determination to hold strategic Kashmir for India, brushed off even U.N. demands for the Kashmir plebiscite he had promised in 1947, Abdullah began talking of making his state independent...
...barter deals that the U.S. has no use for. Their apparent aim is to achieve a reputation for disinterestedness, their hope that eventually the underdeveloped countries will look to them for leadership and help. The economic bridgeheads, once established, can be expanded into an economic dependence that can eventually bind a country as firmly into the Communist orbit as any political pledge...
...Senate Minority Leader William Knowland and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith defended the Eisenhower-Dulles report as "informative" and "positive," but from the Republican-Portland Oregonian came a bitter criticism of "the spectacle of two tired, aging men talking about the gravely compromised half-measures which bind and separate America from its European allies." Among Democrats, Montana's Mike Mansfield wished the report "had spelled out the sacrifices the people will be required to make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning walk that he was "just about...
...guessed that Silberstein would have to sell off more Penn-Texas companies to get the money to buy the stock to support the price, while he shopped for a buyer for his F-M holdings. But Bob Morse apparently had no intention of letting him get out of the bind in that fashion, hoped to squeeze him even harder. Morse had no great worry that Silberstein could find a buyer for his Morse holdings, even if the court permitted him to sell, because the buyer would also be purchasing a lawsuit. But if Morse could persuade the court to make...