Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shattered elsewhere, held firm last week as the Senate closed debate on ratification of the peace treaty with Japan. A heavy majority of Democrats and Republicans, 66 to 10,* voted for ratification of the treaty drafted last September in San Francisco. They followed up by approving the three mutual defense treaties, with Japan, the Philippines and Australia-New Zealand, that frame U.S. security in the Pacific...
...another point Connally shouted: "We can't go on forever appropriating large sums of money to the United Kingdom, France and other countries, and we're under no obligation to do so." Once Harriman spoke of the "very small sum" involved in mutual security. Connally glared, his big mouth popped open and his cigar tumbled ashes down his vest as he asked: "You call $7 billion a small sum?" Hastily Harriman explained he meant "relatively small" in comparison with the importance of strengthening the free world...
This week the hearings continued. Most congressional critics were not trying to stop a mutual security program, but only to hold its cost down. It looked as though the Administration fight for the whole $7.9 billion (besides Connally's committee, the request must go through the Senate Armed Services, House Foreign Affairs, Senate and House appropriations committees) would prove as tough, in its way, as getting France and Germany to link arms in Europe...
...equivalent of 1,007 more in part-time employees, a House subcommittee announced last week. Total salaries for 1952: $17,134,390. Among the biggest users of pressagents: Air Force 741, Army 81 (plus the equivalent, part-time, of 602 more), Navy 642, Economic Stabilization Agency 411 (plus eight), Mutual Security Agency 209 (plus 48), Agriculture Department 19 (plus 156). Smallest: Export-Import Bank, 1/10 of a full-time employee...
...Senator Lyndon Johnson's watchdog committee was looking into reports that shippers who had chartered ships from the Maritime Board were making as much as $1,000 a day a ship, hauling supplies to Korea and cargoes to Europe for the Mutual Security Agency...