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Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873. Like many another U.S. town, it was built around a courthouse, and its pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
...news came out of a 236-page report from the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization. The non-Communist world, reported FAO, is now producing 25% more food than it did in 1946-47. The non-Communist world is producing about 20% more rice, milk and cotton than it did before the war; it is catching 20% more fish; it is producing about 30% more wheat, meat and fats; about 59% more sugar. It has 2% more food available per capita, than it had before the war. FAO warned that there were many regions, e.g., back-country Latin America...
...resignation of Secretary Benson. Confident that his course had been the right one, Benson intended to reduce price supports by 3% to 13% on five basic crops next year (wheat supports will come down from 82.5% of parity to 76%) and to cut back the acreage of wheat and cotton...
...plans to ease the readjustment. One plan was a "lease-land" program, whereby the Government would pay farmers about $500 million a year rental to take about 40 million surplus acres out of production to "conserve fertility." Benson promised that there would be "no radical measures, like plowing under cotton and the slaughter of little pigs...
...Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where he was hailed as a conquering hero of anticolonialism, he pumped the hands of Nehru and Chou Enlai; he bartered a mass of Egyptian cotton for products from Red China. Last year, he sent a trade mission to Moscow, and next year he plans to go there himself...