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...nationalism, hatred of Israel and opposition to Western "imperialism" that many Arab nationalists could see no difference between their own policy and that of the Soviet Union. They might not be under Communist discipline, but they were deeply under Communist influence. Item: Syrian newspapers carried no news of the Hungarian revolt except what was put out by the Russians. Friendship and trade with Russia and Communist-bloc nations increase steadily...
...based on Emily Kimbrough's autobiography, It Gives Me Great Pleasure. TV's most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed by Rod Serling's study of the Hungarian revolt, The Dark Side of the Earth, with Van Heflin, and Marcel Pagnol's Topaze, with Ernie Kovacs...
...warm afterglow of the Hungarian revolution, President Eisenhower laid U.S. prestige on the line by urging Congress to increase the annual number of immigrants to the U.S. from about 155,000 to about 190,000. He also laid U.S. good faith on the line-to the cheers of Congressmen and editorial writers-by admitting 24,-600 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. "on parole," with the tacit understanding that legislation to grant them permanent visas would come later...
...toward a "compromise" immigration bill. Immigration to the U.S. would stay just about where it was, at 155,000 a year, parceled out in national quotas that favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe as against harder-pressed people from Southern and Central Europe. As for the 24,600 Hungarian refugees "on parole," the House Judiciary Committee considered the President's request for permanent status, voted it down by 15 to 11. The Senate committee ignored it completely. So the 24,600 Hungarians-"freedom fighters" was once the term-would have to stay indefinitely on parole...
...fabrication," promptly retaliated. It expelled the Syrian ambassador, Dr. Farid Zeineddine, a garrulous and haughty diplomat who has never been a State Department favorite anyway. It was the first time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post at the end of his present home leave...