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Judging by recent speeches made by the President and the Secretary of State, neither is listening very closely to the other. Dulles sat right behind his chief at Eisenhower's address to the Colombo Plan nations in Seattle November 10, but maybe the public address system was out of whack...
...further the economic and political strength of the newly free, underdeveloped nations. Unfortunately, the President's qualifications to this commitment render his program unconvincing. Just as in his first post-election conference he intoned his economizing refrain, "I think every place we are spending too much money," his Colombo talk was characterized by financial cowardice...
...Seattle to address a meeting of the 18-nation Colombo Plan, set up by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to foster economic development in Asia, the President listed five fundamentals of his Administration's widening foreign economic policy: 1) expanding international trade, 2) keeping up a program of Point Four-type technical assistance, 3) fostering increased overseas investment by U.S. private capital, 4) broadening the flow of "bankable" loans through such international channels as the World Bank. 5) enlarging the U.S.'s Development Loan Fund, which makes loans repayable in soft currencies...
Toward week's end Ike boarded Columbine III for a trip to Seattle for an address this week to a meeting of the 18-nation Colombo Plan organization, set up by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to foster economic development in Asia. On the way, he stopped off in Ohio for a spell of duckhunting as the guest of his good friend and former Treasury Secretary, Cleveland Millionaire George Magoffin Humphrey. Arriving at Toledo, which had gone overwhelmingly Democratic three days earlier, Ike found an airport crowd of 2,500 waiting in 42° chill to show him that...
...people have won prizes in the Harvard-Brown Football Forecast contest. The winners include Henry S. Berman '61 (Elsie's), Andrew N. Brown '61 (Coolidge Cleaners), Henry J. Colombo (Ferranti-Dege), John L. Harte '61 (Barnes and Noble), Daniel J. Rubin '60 (Mike's Club), and Russell P. Schwartz '62 (Harvard Book Store...