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...session of Congress and suggested (in Spanish) that "the policy of the Good Neighbor" should be implemented with "an economy of the Good Neighbor." In short, Mexico needed money. Alemán got some. He and President Truman announced together that the U.S. Export" Import Bank had agreed to lend Mexico an unspecified amount. Washingtonians figured that Mexico would do well to get one-third of the $175 million she had asked for. But that would be enough to give President Alemán a good start on his ambitious new public-power, irrigation and road-building program...
...Washington, Secretary Marshall got back to business. For many months the Soviet Union had disregarded a U.S. request to negotiate a settlement of the $1 i billion in Lend-Lease which the U.S. had given during the war. More than half that sum had been for military supplies. Last week Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov finally consented to discuss it. State Department officials sat down with him to tabulate the long overdue bill...
America's principal economic obligation will be to increase its import trade when other nations are prepared to send us goods. We cannot gain permanent friends by continuing to lend money, the University Professor said...
...demonstrated their sole raison d'etre yesterday evening as they formed the stage for the first of the two annual Harvard Glee Club Yard Concerts. While the Club is, by and large, repeating lighter works sung throughout the regular indoor season, the birds, transient aircraft, and other outdoor effects lend a new sound to the music that is all to the good...
...Quixote kept tilting harder than ever. He called on the U.S. to lend Russia $15 billion as a "practical step toward world reconstruction and peace." He took a sideswipe at De Gaulle. French Communists thought he was wonderful. In fact, they liked him so much-and there 'were so many of them among his hosts and sponsors-that Henry Wallace felt definitely uncomfortable. Finally he stood up and declared: "I am not a Communist-I am only a progressive...