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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went on to lay down a proposition that would be heard again & again in the off-year election campaign; he hoped, he said, that the U.S. could eventually raise its income from $200 billion to $300 billion a year-enough to bring the national average to $4,000 a family. "That...
...sudden burst of speed last week, the U.S. Congress added up the major foreign-aid bills for the current fiscal year, earmarked more than $7 billion for the nation's postwar allies and the occupied countries. The House and Senate quickly agreed on a bill authorizing $1,314,010,000 in military aid for European partners in the Atlantic defense pact (see below...
...While Congress debated the military assistance program, the final outlines of MAP had gradually taken shape in half a dozen-looseleaf notebooks in a second-floor office of the State Department. There, listed item by item, with the quantity and price of each, were precise allocations of military arms to each MAP country. Last week MAP planners combed through the notebooks and cut out $160 million worth of low-priority items to fit the $1 billion program authorized by Congress for the Atlantic Treaty nations...
There were still some details to complete before MAP supplies started flowing abroad. Congress had yet to appropriate the money which it had authorized. The North Atlantic defense council had to approve its integrated defense plan and each nation had to sign agreements promising not to sell or transfer MAP arms without U.S. permission. MAP did not even have a director-ex-Ambassador James Bruce had not yet been officially nominated by the President. But MAP planners hoped to ship the first materiel by year's end or, with luck, by Thanksgiving...
President Juan Peron last week took steps calculated to transform his clumsy authoritarian government into an up-to-date dictatorship. With laws rammed through the closing session of Congress (43 were passed in five hours), the President did away with 1) free political discussion of himself, his wife or his regime, and 2) any future election threat to his rule...