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Speaker Rayburn, who makes speeches infrequently so that they will be regarded as an occasion, spoke a second time on the. House floor during the week. This time he was trying to save the President's omnibus foreign-aid bill from being amended to shreds. "Do we want friends in the world?" he asked. "Do we need friends . . .? Suppose the democracies of Europe do not stand up, and they are folded within the iron curtain, where will the next war be fought...
Considered as a whole, the Mundt-Ferguson-Johnston omnibus is a loosely-drawn and heavy handed attempt to put restraints on organizations which fall into these Senators' amorphous categories. Tomorrow's editorial will discuss the theories behind this type of legislation and attempt to find a constructive way out of the present "subversive" dilemma...
...will have to fight for what he gets. At week's end, Havana's other bus system, Omnibus Aliados, announced that, "thanks to the cooperation of General Motors," arrangements were being completed for the purchase of 300 new G.M.C. de luxe buses...
...implement the autonomous nature of the plan, participation will be on a completely voluntary basis--for doctors and hospitals as well as patients. This distinguishes the newer plan from the compulsory Truman omnibus health bill introduced last year. The argument for the compulsory system is that a voluntary plan, if it is ever to gain enough participants, must have expensive sales promotion; the Blue Cross supposedly pays out one-third of its premiums in advertising. But under any government-controlled plan, the cost of administration would almost surely be greater than that of an advertising program. In any case...
...presented the administration's recommendations last Spring to the hearings on the omnibus health plan, the scholarships were to be apportioned to the States, according to their population, not less than two to any State. The object of the scholarship program, as the FSA saw it, was to "keep pace with the progress made in financing the costs of instruction and facilities...