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Father Davis loses me completely when he speaks of Spanish-Jewish "coexistence." I would like some clarification on this point. Does he mean that the Spaniards of Torquemada's time agreed to let the Jew coexist with them as long as he became a Catholic? To a Humanist like myself, the sugar-coating of history is the greatest of all "sins...
What the pipeline explanation made clear is that cuts in appropriations this year will mean a serious slashing of actual aid to U.S. allies in 1959 and 1960, no matter what is done by Congress next year. It also made the point that when (and if) the time comes to call a halt to foreign aid the pipeline will have to be plugged two or three years in advance of the proposed cutoff date. The experts' explanation seemed to clear the Senate's vision. At week's end it seemed likely that the Appropriations Committee...
...Leave Us Alone." Who extended the invitation, how far the Russians mean to go in accepting it, and how irreversible the present course is, remain to be seen. In Cairo, where he hustled off early last week to ease his ulcer and talk to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, a moderate rightist but also something of a weakling, vehemently denied that his country was turning Communist. The U.S., said El Kuwatly, "should leave us alone." But El Kuwatly's own attempt to keep a check on the rise...
...night after Syrian army leaders came home from Moscow with a promise of $100 million in arms, the Syrian army intelligence service broadcast a fantastic "communique" from Damascus. "O people!" it said, "a mean imperialist plot" has just been discovered. At least three members of the U.S. embassy staff in Syria were said to be involved. "At the helm of the conspiracy," said the Damascus radio, was Second Secretary Howard Stone, "a most skillful expert" who had "hatched" plots before in the Sudan, Iran, Guatemala. Only the day before, said the communique, "this Stone" had set up meetings in Damascus...
...cocktail parties the Kerrs, parents of four small boys, get only blank stares when they chatter on about Lassie or Robin Hood or Disneyland. "You won't believe it, but some of these people have never even heard of Oswald Rabbit. I mean, what do you suppose they look...