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President Eisenhower brought up the subject at his press conference fortnight ago when he went beyond his staff's advice to advocate a change in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which forbids transfer of nuclear weapons to any ally in peacetime. U.S. allies, said he, should be treated "as partners," and not as "junior members of a firm who are to be seen and not heard. So I would think that it would be better for the U.S. to make our law more liberal." The U.S. is not likely to get a change...
...White House limousine sped up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol one day fortnight ago, carrying two presidential aides to a secret meeting in the office of North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton R. Young. Gathered for the meeting were G.O.P. wheat-state Senators, all of them unhappy about the farm message that President Eisenhower was scheduled to send to Congress that very day. The Senators had found in the advance text a lingering echo of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's crusading spirit, and they felt that, considering Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt, a gentler...
...best indication of Stevenson's fadeout came from Attorney James Doyle of Madison, Wis., a longtime Stevenson friend and advocate, who last fortnight sent out word of an important press conference to announce the formation of a national draft-Stevenson movement, with himself as chairman and chief strategist. But by the time of the press conference last week, Jim Doyle had changed his tune. There would be no draft movement, he said, no Stevenson organization of any kind. His advice to the faithful: "Each Stevenson supporter must decide for himself whether to vote for Humphrey or Kennedy, or simply...
When the European settlers of Algiers began their uprising fortnight ago, it seemed unthinkable that 1,000,000 Algerian "Frenchmen"-60% of whom are Spanish, Italian or Maltese by ancestry-could topple a government satisfactory to the majority of their 45 million fellow citizens in Metropolitan France. But as last week wore on, metropolitan Frenchmen came to realize that it was not the insurgent settlers they had to fear; it was the French army, which stood revealed as neither a neutral witness nor an unwilling accomplice, but as the active and continuing patron of the settlers' revolt. "The army...
...Fortnight ago, Betancourt's cops broke up a right-wing plot against him, and he used the occasion to go on TV and say a few things about where he stands now. On Communists, he warned of those who "create hostility against foreign investment capital and against the U.S." His nation's relations with the U.S. are good, he said, and in an aside obviously aimed at Cuba he added: "If other countries are not in a similar situation, we wish that good inter-American understanding could be restored...