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...think everyone thinks about the Houses," was the off-the-cuff reply...
Taken up technically, the matter proved solvable. The Anglo-French salvage fleet would keep working in the Port Said harbor after the troops left. The ships would be turned over to the U.N., operate under the U.N. flag. Royal Navy officers and men would don civilian clothes "down to cuff links," and all wear U.N. arm bands. The ships would dismantle all guns (a good thing, gruffed Lord Hailsham, "there's nobody there I'd particularly want to salute...
Soon after Ike's talk about neutralism hit the news wires, the State Department began to get anxious calls from some of its best friends in Embassy Row. While Ike's off-the-cuff slip about alliances' was explainable, it was obvious that some U.S. allies were shaken by what seemed a new, friendly emphasis on neutralism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles rushed to set things right in a speech delivered at Iowa State College...
...President took the advice. Next morning he opened his news conference with an off-the-cuff statement that the U.S. is "waging peace." Said he: "There is no amount of money that you can pour into bombs and missiles and planes and tanks and guns that will assure you peace." It is more profitable to spend for "constructive things that tend to make people respectful of the great values that we are supporting." Thus, it would be "tragic" not to support foreign-aid programs "cheerfully and adequately...
...Washington debate over whether or not the U.S. is headed for inflation, he reaffirmed an earlier statement backing the Federal Reserve Board's decision to raise interest rates to member banks although the President's own administrators opposed the decision (see BUSINESS). In an off-the-cuff opinion, he suggested that Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen's proposal to limit income taxes to a 25% ceiling might get the Government into "a very rigid fix." He revealed that he had persuaded retiring NATO Commander General Alfred Gruenther not to retire "for a long time, but I couldn...