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...unpardonably superficial. We went to Alabama chiefly in response to Martin Luther King's call for help. Responding to desperate calls for help would seem to be appropriate clerical behavior. We went as an act of deliberate identification with those in need whose cause is just, to lend encouragement and support, and hopefully to redeem in part our past record of passivity and neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy. In Montgomery we discovered another reason for being present. Justice Department men encouraged us to join the march...
Washington is willing to bend, but only a bit. Commerce Secretary John Connor said last week that U.S. businessmen may lend and invest freely in the underdeveloped nations. The U.S. is in no mood to relax its restrictions on the 22 "developed" nations-including all of Europe as well as Japan and Australia-because it is continuing to lose gold. The nation's gold supply dropped another $250 million last week, bringing the year's loss up to $825 million and the stock at Fort Knox down to a 27-year low of $14.6 billion...
Going even farther, Britain's Labor government is willing to transform the International Monetary Fund into a world central bank that would not only lend money but also create it. Though De Gaulle's call for a return to the gold standard has been roundly rejected, the French believe that they have won an important psychological battle: just about everybody wants to change the money system to give the world more floating capital...
...banner year of 1957. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz recently set a new tone by declaring: "We need and welcome private capital." In the light of anti-inflation measures in Brazil, the World Bank, in which the U.S. has the greatest stake, has agreed to lend money to that country for the first time in five years...
...cannot finish," called for a settlement guaranteed by the United Nations or a special peace-keeping force. North Dakota Democrat George McGovern said his mail has been running 15 to 1 for negotiations, said: "It is not appeasement to recognize that the problem of Southeast Asia does not lend itself to a military solution...