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...this week the congressional chorus began to march on the stage to take an active part in the show. From the House Ways & Means Committee came the Administration's excess-profits bill, voted out over the fruitless protests of Republican members, economists and businessmen (see BUSINESS). But in the atmosphere of crisis, Administration leaders predicted that they would drive it through to early passage...
...David Ratner concluded his column, "Brass Tacks," in your November 9 issue with the assertion that "the political maturity of Puerto Rico is now doubtful." On first reading this piece I felt strongly inclined to take issue with him. Further reflection has persuaded me that it would be fruitless to do so. The concept of "political maturity" is rather vague. I do not know how Mr. Ratner himself understands it or what consequence he thinks should follow from it. Therefore I prefer to offer some comments, by way of footnotes to the text of "Island Insurrection," which may convey further...
...Popular Democrats want to solve some of the island's economic problems before trying to achieve political freedom. The fruitless coup, which may have been forced out prematurely by government discovery of arms in the Nationalists' possession, has not interfered with registration and may even have served to boost it. The greatest damage done is that more than 25 people died in the two-day war, and that the political maturity of Puerto Rico is now doubtful...
...weaknesses and a determination to build up strength. Russia had enabled the U.S. to prove to the whole world that it would shed the blood of its men on foreign soil to defend an ally. Russia had aroused the U.N.-to which its representative had made a degraded and fruitless return after seven months of boycott-to a consciousness of new power and prestige. Russia had showed herself to the troubled peoples of Asia and to all the Red satellites of Europe as a puppet-master who abandons the puppet when things go wrong...
Military victory in Korea by the United Nations forces now seems assured unless Mac Tze Tung's Chinese Communists enter the war. All of the experts feared that war with Mac would be fruitless for both sides and Fairbank and Hopper feel that Chinese entry into the Korea fight is a possibility. Fairbank says there is still a danger of Chinese intervention if U.N. troops cross the 38th parallel. War with Red China, he said, would be a bleeding conflict in which "we could not beat them or they...