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...quietly set about shifting foreign-aid policies that had been backed by the full prestige of the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations. There were no dramatic sessions; at every opportunity he simply called attention to the problem. Last spring he began inviting Administration leaders to conferences and lectures. At first the State Department was horrified at the prospect of revising foreign-aid policy (and some of its staffers still are), but Anderson found a sympathetic listener in Under Secretary (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon, longtime international banker both on Wall Street and in Government and a firm believer...
...insurgents could exercise those rights. Result: Provenzano's forces caved in, last week signed a court stipulation postponing the election until mid-January, giving insurgents a fair chance to run a slate against the strong-arm regime. Without much of a court fight, Landrum-Griffin paid its first dividend...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan now feels the need to draw closer to Europe. When he first came to power after Suez, he gave top priority to repairing Britain's strained U.S. relations. Since his election victory in October, he has shifted his concern to Europe. That was the meaning of Selwyn Lloyd's visit to Paris last week, which produced more assurances than achievement. Next on the agenda: a long-postponed state visit to London this week by Konrad Adenauer...
...Foreign Office remained ignorant, one man continued to share the Chancellor's secrets: State Secretary Hans Globke, the indispensable confidential clerk who-his enemies never let him forget-25 years ago wrote the official commentary on the Nazis' racial laws. Last week, when the Bundestag held its first foreign-policy debate in 18 months, Adenauer did not bother to speak. Members could only guess what lay behind his dark and ambiguous warning at Baden-Baden last month that Germany had still to "pay" for World...
Adenauer himself was reported to be shocked and angered to find that his ally De Gaulle had arranged Khrushchev's visit to Paris without first consulting him. Although Adenauer had discussed and approved in advance the French President's moves to block an early summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity...