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...Japan wants to boost its U.S. exports, which it favors far more than trading with Red China. But last week, as Congress began hearings on extension of the reciprocal-trade act (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), prospects were that exports to the U.S. will be cut rather than raised. To plead their case, ten gentlemen from Japan called upon U.S. officials in Washington to tell them about what is happening to the little town of Tsu-bame-and thereby told a tale of how even a small U.S. tariff change can bring economic disaster abroad...
...plead for a return to the humanities, but not merely the old humanities," he asserted in an article for the New York Herald Tribune. "I plead for the humanistic study of science through its history, its cultural contacts, its humane aspects," he said...
Einar Gerhardsen urged new attempts at "realistic discussions" between East and West. Even West Germany's President Theodor Heuss chimed in to plead for a return to "secret diplomacy" along the lines recently advocated by "the cautious and brilliant George Kennan...
...current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending a high-level emissary to Bonn to ask West Germany to plead Israel's case with the other NATO nations, almost was forced to resign when left-wing members of the Cabinet raised...
...practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen's cause: Everett Dirksen...