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Special Broadcast (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., CBS). New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson in a rebuttal of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's rebuttal of Ed Murrow's See It Now program, on the farm problem...
...couldn't see any purpose served by your article except to infer that Ed Murrow . . .was deliberately attempting to distort the situation...
...Fancy Ed Murrow being such a babe in the wood ! He made Ezra Benson look the hero- something Mr. Benson hasn't been able to do for himself recently...
...confident that Secretary Benson understands the basic farm problem and its solution, but feel that his comments on the Murrow broadcast were very misleading. Low-income farmers are not being driven off the land by foreclosures when they can sell out at alltime peak prices; they are leaving, as shown in the Murrow telecast, of their own free will, to take their profits on land prices and find more profitable employment. It is through this migration of surplus low-income farmers to more profitable and useful employment . . . that the farm problem of surplus production and low prices will be solved...
...positively unfair ... I hear this farm situation discussed pro and con 20 times a day, and I haven't the answer to our trouble, but I do know that partisan reporting will only harm us. Delve into this deal a little deeper. You'll find Ed Murrow knew what he was talking about...