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...Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella righteously). The U.S. sent its young consul splashing through the mud from Florence, Italy to the foundry, to offer recognition to the democratic government. He lingered long enough to join in a toast in brandy, served in cracked glasses set on a cardboard flap torn from a packing case...
...closed-door, pre-banquet luncheon before 150 G.O.P. fund raisers from nine Midwestern states, Humphrey tried to straighten some of the hair he had frizzed during the budget flap last winter, when he remarked that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Said he: "I think you might just as well admit that there is a wave of criticism, a wave of disappointment, a wave of complaint that is going all over the country-here in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, in a lot of places. It is more prevalent with just the kind of people who are right...
Cockiness for Caution. Congress' who-cares sentiment toward Ike-the-domestic-leader blossomed during the "hair-curling" Humphrey flap and the budget fight last February, as the White House delayed overlong in taking a firm stand for Administration policies (TIME, April 22). The House, including many a Republican outside the party's Old Guard, happily zeroed in on one of Eisenhower's favorite projects, the U.S. Information Agency, sliced its budget by half. The Senate crippled the Administration farm program (but rallied remarkably when Ike stood and fought for foreign...
Leadership Decried. The Eisenhower Republicans were hurting badly from the budget flap, and they made no secret of the fact that they thought Ike's lack of leadership was to blame. Not only had Democrats and Old Guard Republicans gained strength from the general confusion (headlined the New Rochelle.N.Y. Standard-Star: GOP TELLS IKE TO GO JUMP IN BUDGET LAKE), but Ikemen had nothing of their own to cling to. Reasons: 1) in order to make speeches defending the budget, an Eisenhower Republican had to accept the President's word that it was sound; 2) every time...
...President's new offensive came none too soon, for the flap over the budget had signaled a remarkably resolute rebellion against the whole Eisenhower program by the G.O.P. Old Guard. Also with each passing day Congressmen were getting themselves committed to new budget cuts and-in the absence of any public clamor in defense of Ike's program-taking up political positions from which retreat might be difficult...