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President Eisenhower's program of creating study commissions has already been denounced by Democrats as "Government by postponement," but the real value of the commission approach will depend upon the wisdom and dispatch the commissions show in carrying out their job. Last week the four principal commissions set up so far were just getting started on studies of key Government problems. The four...
First word of the negotiation talk reached Washington on the news tickers. "France today offered to negotiate with the Communists for peace in embattled Indo-China," began one dispatch. Coming as it did on top of the new U.S. decision to double aid to the French in Indo-China, and France's promise of a vigorous new military effort to beat the Reds (TIME, Sept. 28), the report shocked U.S. policymakers. "State Department officials were hopping mad," one correspondent reported. But when they read the complete text of Schumann's remarks and heard the hasty explanations of French...
Loosely united again on the most ticklish problem now facing the U.N., the West stepped into the Assembly's big 60-nation meeting to head off a bulldozing Communist campaign to reopen the whole Korean peace conference issue and wheedle Peking into China's U.N. seat. With dispatch, the diplomats elected India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the Assembly's first woman president (see below), agreed to argue about most of the world's dreams and ills, from disarmament to difficulties in landscaping the U.N. skyscraper headquarters in Manhattan...
...rainbow trout). On his return to Denver, Ike hardly had time to greet the First Lady and Mrs. Doud before he was engulfed in affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman of the Planning Board of the National Security Council, had flown in from Washington with a fat dispatch case full of international problems, and was waiting at the summer White House when Ike arrived. After a four-hour conference, the President decided to summon John Foster Dulles to Denver for a full report and consultation (see above...
...week Canadian-born Thomson crossed the ocean again for the biggest newspaper deal of his brief but spectacular career. For about $3,000,000, he bought control of Scotland's small but influential 136-year-old morning Scotsman (circ. 55,000) and its sister papers, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch (71,000) and the Weekly Scotsman (66,000). In taking control of the papers from old Scottish family ownership, Thomson gets a staff of 800, a 13-story Renaissance-style building that cost $2,400,000 in 1904, and the prestige of a pioneer publishing company. On the Scotsman...