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...years the U.S. has been subsidizing other countries at prodigious rates by lend-lease, foreign aid, loans, etc. By best available estimates, the total from 1940 to 1954 is about $95 billion. Today most Americans agree that such expenditures are good policy, if the money is spent wisely and carefully. Such an American is Louisiana's youthful (35) Senator Russell Long. But when the Foreign Aid authorization bill reached the Senate floor last week, Democrat Long was the bill's chief opponent...
Colonial Police State. Sultan Ben Youssef's crime had been to lend his royal support to the nationalist movement. His mortal enemy was cunning old El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech and leader of Morocco's 3,000,000 Berbers, a mountain people who hate the Arabs. The French backed El Glaoui, and replaced Ben Youssef with a stooge loyal to both France and the Berbers: Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, who is aged, weak and unpopular...
...Government's atomic monopoly, it would set up machinery for licensing companies to make electric power from atomic energy. Under the AEC's paternal eye, the companies would acquire their own reactors and other facilities, but the Government would keep title to nuclear materials which it would lend out. The bill also would allow private citizens to take out patents on atomic-energy developments, and would encourage prospecting for fissionable materials on public lands...
Died. Hugh Alfred Butler. 76, longtime (since 1941) Old Guard Republican Senator from Nebraska; of a stroke; in Washington. A tireless spokesman for Midwestern farm-bloc isolationism, wealthy (grain-trading) Hugh Butler, in 14 years in the Senate, came out against lend-lease, wartime extension of the draft act, reciprocal trade, Social Security, all Government subsidies, the Marshall Plan, Point Four and Korean intervention, last year reversed his field and became an ardent champion of Hawaiian statehood...
...good works are so famed that the veterans' annual fishing trip, now in its eighth year, is a Texas institution, and boat owners are glad to lend their boats for it. Nevertheless, Anderson has nothing but scorn for the "bighearted amateur do-gooder." Says he: "There's no greater waste in the world." The reason is that Anderson does not consider himself an amateur do-gooder. He is a professional...