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Even the unexpectedly strong plea for basic revisions in the McCarran-Walter Act is not going to effect the needed reforms in an election year. Faced with President Truman's veto of the Act just before the last election, over two-thirds of the House and Senate, voted to over-ride. And among those who voted to pass the Act were many Democratic Senators who now control important posts--Johnson, George, Fulbright, Byrd, Eastland--as well as both Knowland and Bridges. If the President puts his full authority behind the changes, however, Congress should accept some, even...
...self-criticism were evident. Said Yale's Dean Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations of the world might understandably reply to the church's plea for international unity and peace: 'Physician, heal thyself.' " Nevertheless, the council mapped out a huge task: "We believe that Christianity in southeast Asia may well prove the pacemaker in international diplomacy in the next ten years...
...plea of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden for a relaxation of the Allied embargo against trade to Red China got a cool reception in Washington last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Part of the reason was an angry blast by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee at the "shocking" flow of strategic goods already leaking out to Red nations, mainly Russia. The subcommittee voted unanimously for public hearings on the effect of an agreement two years ago to cut the Battle Act embargo list for Western Allies from 297 to 217 items and the international quantitative control list from 90 to 20 items...
Alluding to his recent plea to Congress for a nine-point agriculture relief program (TIME, Jan. 23), the President wrote: "The Government can do a great deal to help people who have been left behind in the onrush of progress by undertaking special programs for raising their productivity . . . We must find ways and means of extending prosperity to the less flourishing sectors of our economy...
...mistrusts it. Give him a daring development project that can be accomplished only by installment payments, and he sees the point. Last week, in a not-for-attribution background press briefing, a "high Government source" finally got down to cases in the Administration's long-bobbled plea to Congress for authority to make long-term foreign-aid commitments (TIME...