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...cuts came in two days of runaway voting which the Democratic leadership was powerless to head off. Toward the end of the first day of debate, the Democrats mixed up their signals and allowed too many Administration members to go home early. The Republicans suddenly found themselves a majority on the floor, seized control and never let go. G.O.P. Boss Joe Martin deftly fended off Democratic delaying maneuvers, pushed through two drastic economy amendments sponsored by Ohio's John Vorys. These cut a total of $726.5 million and came on top of the $1 billion cut recommended...
...months of 1938 swept my spirit clear to discern one truth: 'Man without mysticism is a monster.' I do not mean, of course, that I denied the usefulness of reason and knowledge. What I grasped was that religion begins at the point where reason and knowledge are powerless and forever fail-the point at which man senses the mystery of his good and evil, his suffering and his destiny as a soul in search...
Parliament is suspended for the moment, and the huge Wafd majority in both Houses is powerless. The King's men can hold power for a while, buttressed by the army, the police, the curfew and tight press censorship. But the King's men haven't much time. The cry of "Down with the King!" is already being heard in student demonstrations...
...Cleveland; U.S. travel in Hungary was banned. Possible next steps: confiscation of frozen Hungarian assets in the U.S., and a complaint in the U.N. against Hungary and Russia for violating human rights. It was a measure of the times that the world's most powerful nation was powerless to do much more...
...land which most Americans are apt to regard as a musical-comedy setting-was: nothing whatever. In the 19 years since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, her political history has been punctuated by eight coups d'etat, none of which had any profound effect on the powerless ruling House of Chakkri. Last week, young hepcat King Phumiphon Adundet,* his pretty Queen Sirikit and their eight-month-old daughter Princess Lotus Precious Stone arrived home from Switzerland to find their nation just recovering from one of the quietest coups in its history...