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...request: some $200 million worth of surplus U.S. farm products, to be sold for Polish zlotys, and a $100 million Export-Import Bank loan for the purchase of U.S. machinery. Even though the State Department is thinking in terms of some $30 million, California's William Fife Knowland, Senate minority leader, declared he would continue to oppose any sum until Soviet troops are withdrawn from Poland and free elections are held. From the other side of the aisle, Massachusetts' Democrat John F. Kennedy proclaimed that it would be a brutal and dangerous policy for the U.S. to turn...
...Gaza Strip controversy constitutes an example of the problem that is causing many U.S. officials to lose faith in the U.N. I agree with Senator Knowland that a double standard on international policy may make the U.S. and the U.N. look as two-faced as the mythological Janus, but the U.N. should adopt some kind of "speak loudly and carry a big stick" policy with some of these countries which are causing it to lose prestige in the world, and which may eventually cause it to meet the same unfortunate termination which the old League of Nations...
TIME captions U.N. Delegate Knowland as "a bulldozer in the forest" on the question of sanctions for Israel. Knowland is urging consistent application of principles of international justice and morality to all nations alike; Dulles and Eisenhower have erected a crazy-quilt patchwork of inconsistency in foreign policy, and Knowland will lead them out of the woods if they will only stop and listen...
Ignored Danger. Where Kennedy left off. President Eisenhower himself took up in an open letter to California's Bill Knowland, the Senate minority leader: "We cannot wage peace with American arms alone. The pending [Russell] amendment ignores the danger of subversion. This we must not do. These nations need effective security forces, [and improved] economic conditions ... It is hardly reasonable to insist that these funds ... be spent only for programs approved [by Congress] before such drastic changes occurred...
...June wedding season was helped along by Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, who proclaimed the banns for his petite daughter Estelle, 19, a Stanford University junior, and husky Robert McKeen, 23, former University of California basketball star...