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...nub of the present U.S. problem was the fact that canny U.S. farmers often hold grain off the market when they figure that trouble or higher prices are brewing. By the best guesstimate of the grain trade, about 175,000,000 bushels of wheat were held on farms last week...
...other country is entitled to have good neighbors on its street. . . You will probably think I am a little energetic about this. But I am a little resentful and I think the House will agree I am entitled to be. . . ." Churchill on the Bomb. The atomic bomb was the nub. On this crucial subject, Churchill and Bevin addressed them selves not only to the U.S. and Russia but to the British public and press, lately convinced that the U.S. was holding out on Great Britain. Said Churchill: "According to our present understanding with the United States, neither country...
...Nub of the failure was that the U.S. negotiators and Britain's persuasive Lords Keynes and Halifax had concentrated on technical points in their seven weeks' negotiations, instead of taking time out to do a real selling job. Result: public opinion in both countries was more against the loan after the seven weeks than before...
Walter Lippmann argued that the more quickly and thoroughly the information was disseminated, the easier it would be to keep track of other nations' progress. Ely Culbertson, the bridge expert turned international prophet, had a daring plan. The nub: give a beefed-up international organization (not U.N.O.) surveillance over atomic and heavy-weapon production, plus enough atomic and other armed force to quell any potential aggressor...
After Senator Wheeler's speech, debate whirled on a thin point of interpretation: would U.S. agreements under Article 43 require approval by a two-thirds majority vote of the Senate, or by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress? The point was the nub of opposition strategy. If a two-thirds Senate vote were required, then the opposition might have a later chance. The point made odd allies. Administration men, such as Alben Barkley and Tom Connally, found themselves on the two-thirds side with Burt Wheeler...