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...There remain sections of public opinion, particularly in Western Europe," says the memo, "which still continue to picture the U.S. as reluctant to engage in genuine negotiations with the Soviet Union for fear that any relaxation of tension which might result would work to the detriment of the U.S. policy of strengthening European defense ... It is essential that it be made clear that we are not going into this conference in order merely to satisfy public desire for a conference, nor merely to demonstrate the intransigence of the Soviet Union...
...would be renewing the ancient struggles among the various religious faiths to the detriment of all. This we must decline...
...Eisenhower Administration will cut import duties or raise them. They expect no real answer until next March, when the Randall Commission, appointed by President Eisenhower to recommend changes in U.S. tariffs, makes its report. ¶Italy's Premier Giuseppe Pella complained that OEEC works to Italy's detriment because it does nothing to help solve the problem of 2,000,000 Italian unemployed, the biggest single reservoir of Italian Communists. Pella got some encouragement from the council's decision that jobs in any member country which remain unfilled after 30 days may henceforth be filled by bringing...
...University administration, has had much to do with both the "low estate of religion at Harvard" and the low estate of the Divinity School. Yet even among those more tolerant toward, and interested in religion, many have feared that the Divinity School can only be reemphasized to the detriment of the other schools and fields. President Pusey unfortunately added fuel to this fear when he voiced his belief that "It is leadership in religious knowledge and religious experience--not increased industrial might, not more research facilities, certainly not these things by themselves--of which we now have a most gaping...
...strategic stockpiling program, they will find plenty of things wrong with the $4 billion defense project. Preliminary checks have turned up inferior materials, loss through mishandling, loose specifications and possible fraud. Part of the blame lies with pork-barreling Congressmen, who insisted on protecting U.S. industries to the detriment of efficient buying abroad. But most of the shortcomings can be laid to bureaucratic bumbling...