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...Draper committee's recommendation: the U.S.. as part of its foreign aid program, should heed requests for assistance from nations trying to curb runaway population. Mindful of the furor raised by the U.S. Catholic bishops' recent statement opposing such use of U.S. funds (TIME, Dec. 7), Ike gave the question an answer calculated to snuff it out as a political issue...
Concluded Ike firmly: "This government will not, as long as I am here, have a positive political doctrine in its program that has to do with this problem of birth control. That's not our business...
Threatened by a war it was not prepared for, India this week looked forward eagerly to the arrival of touring President Dwight Eisenhower. Indians appreciated the fact that of the eleven countries Ike is visiting, he will spend more time in India-four days-than in any of the others...
...know, like and respect each other. They first met in 1949 when Ike, as president of Columbia University, awarded an honorary degree to Nehru, who was making his first visit to the U.S. After Eisenhower moved on to the presidency of the U.S., Nehru's private comments about him were not always flattering. Though recognizing Ike's inherent goodness, Nehru nevertheless thought him a weak leader, dominated by the "negative" foreign policy of John Foster Dulles...
They became better acquainted in 1956 on Nehru's second trip to the U.S., soon after Hungary and Suez had erupted into the headlines. Spending a day at Ike's Gettysburg farm, the two began talking at breakfast, continued through the morning until lunch. Then after a short nap, the talks went on through the late afternoon, dinner and evening-a total of 14 hours. It was, said Nehru, the longest sustained conversation he has ever had with anyone, and it touched on subjects ranging from the painting of Grandma Moses to the personality of Nikita Khrushchev...