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...Eisenhower agreed that the flag should indeed fly as "visual evidence that Panama does have titular sovereignty" over the U.S.-occupied Zone, but the House of Representatives voted a resolution against letting the Panamanian flag be flown in the Zone. Last week, with Congress adjourned and another November looming, Ike ruled that Panama's flag of red, white and blue squares will henceforth fly daily with the U.S. flag in the Canal Zone plaza just over the border from Panama's legislative building...
...from stop to stop, and Kennedy's most consistent admirers seemed to be the teenagers, who swarmed around him like the children of Hamelin around the piper-a good sign, according to John Bailey, Kennedy's Connecticut henchman, who saw a parallel to the youngsters who liked Ike so well...
...certain assistance from outside" was keeping the threat of civil war alive and gravely handicapping the U.N.'s task. In Washington, President Eisenhower considered the Russian intervention so serious that he had a special statement ready at his press conference warning the Soviets "to desist from unilateral activities." Ike charitably admitted there was no direct evidence of Russian military pilots operating the 11-yushins. But the pilots were certainly not Congolese-the Congo has nobody capable of flying a two-engined plane. To all this the Russians retorted that they would continue aiding Lumumba as long as they wanted...
...dying Congress was not only rough on the Democrats, it also deliberately defied President Eisenhower. After the 21 nation Organization of American States condemned Dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic for aggression and called for sanctions against it (TIME, Aug. 29), Ike needed authorization to cut imports of Dominican sugar to the U.S. The Senate obligingly voted unrestricted authority to the President, but the House capriciously insisted that he would have to wait until the OAS members formally invoked sanctions. In a schizoid mood, neither House nor Senate would budge, and the new sugar bill died with the Congress. Ike...
History of Fairness. On the day of the vote, some of the nation's best-known lawyers rose to endorse Ike or to dispute him. "I am not prepared to give up one iota of American sovereignty to a court that is controlled in part by the Soviets," said fiery A.B.A. Past President David F. Maxwell of Philadelphia, who called instead for "a court of free nations . . . where laws will be supported by Anglo-Saxon justice and not totalitarianism."*In rebuttal, the A.B.A.'s incoming president, Whitney North Seymour, 59, of New York, argued that the court...