Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inaugural address in January President Truman outlined a four point legislative program for passage by the 81st Congress. The last point called for technical and financial aid to underdeveloped countries. This was to be separate from any economic or military help to Marshall Plan--or later, Atlantic Pact--nations...
...Vital Force? Nehru has called for a Congress revitalization, but the reaction has been sluggish. Able Sardar Valkbhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister and Nehru's strong right hand in administration and politics, is too ill and old (74) to beat a new party drum. Some disillusioned Congress followers have turned to the Socialist Party, which has just begun an organizational drive in the villages. Many more, especially from the inflation-harried middle class of clerical workers and small merchants, are turning to the extremists...
...Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...
Senator George D. Aiken, leader in the fight for farm supports, received a serious setback this weekend when a Joint Conference Committee of Congress agreed tentatively to adopt a flat 90 percent of parity for the support of basic farm crops. But immediately after, the Committee withdrew its decision, leaving Senator Aiken confused, uncertain, and unhappy...
...other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best to win them back. The farmers can only sit back and wait for an adjournment-hungry Congress to battle...