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Knocking down Capehart's plea for a White House advisory commission on monetary policy, Kerr fired first: "No man can help Eisenhower study the fiscal policies of this Government, because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." While gallery spectators gasped and Capehart, outraged, tried to break in, Kerr went grandly on: "If the greatest fiscal experts this nation has ever produced marched in solid phalanx before Eisenhower for months ... he would emerge from the experience just as uninformed...
...billion in foreign-aid funds-the House's Big Two, and the President, too, took a real pasting. The Senate had agreed to a three-year foreign-aid economic-development program, had authorized $2 billion to finance it. The rebellious House, unimpressed by a special presidential plea (snapped Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "I took my last marching orders in 1916-19"), limited this key Administration program to one year, authorized only $500 million to get it going. Then the House (254-154) cut the President's $3.8 billion foreign-aid request to $3.1 billion...
...count of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer two questions on the identity of persons attending a Communist writers' meeting, put to him last year by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Judge McLaughlin, who had already dismissed the first count on Miller's plea that the Supreme Court had ruled in the Watkins case that Congress may investigate only to alter or initiate legislation, last week fined him $500 and gave him a one-month suspended sentence on the second. Technicality behind the decision: Miller had not challenged the pertinence of the second question, therefore...
Even hard-bitten Justice Department lawyers skipped a heartbeat last spring when accused Soviet Spies Jack and Myra Soble of Manhattan pleaded guilty to "receiving and obtaining" U.S. defense secrets (TIME, April 22). The plea got them out of a tougher charge of conspiring to transmit defense secrets to Soviet agents, and in return it seemed certain that the Sobles had agreed to tell their story. Last week, as a direct outgrowth of secret Soble testimony, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted two more Americans as members of the ever-widening Soble ring. The two: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence...
...incarnation of horror that must be wiped out-because, such hate will only blind the West in trying to devise sound policy. Most readers will accept this as sensible advice. But Deutscher goes on to plead elaborately that Russia is not really like 1984 at all-and in this plea he shows a pedantic failure to understand satire. Or could it be that Author Deutscher, like the characters in 1984, uses doublethink without any longer being aware...