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...that this would reinforce "the aggressive North Atlantic military bloc." After a tough three-day battle Nenni accepted a compromise solution by which his Socialists would vote in Parliament for Euratom, but abstain on the Common Market. When proCommunists still insisted on voting against both treaties, Nenni threatened to resign. With elections coming up next year and no leader of his Stalin Prizewinning stature in sight, the leftist Socialists approved Nenni's handwritten resolution, 59 to 13. This proves, said Nenni, that the "Socialist Party is completely separated from the Communists." Almost everyone else in Italy was willing...
...soon after Hollister got down to work, New York Timesman James Reston nominated him to membership in a "4-H Club" within the Administration bent on gutting foreign aid. The other members: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (soon to resign), onetime Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (who resigned last winter), onetime Budget Director Rowland Hughes (who resigned last year, died three months ago). But the more hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year...
Last week Hollister took up his option to resign at the end of a two-year term, sent a letter of resignation to the President that showed just how far he had come. Foreign aid, when properly administered and wisely aimed, is effective and essential to mutual security, he concluded. "This must continue as long as aggressive international Communism threatens us. In the nature of things this far-flung effort ... is occasionally wasteful and inefficient. Chances must be taken, and in many cases it will be some years before we can see how successful the gamble may have been." Then...
Surveying his family (wife and three college-minded daughters) and his service pay ($10,825 a year, including allowances), Navy Captain Chester W. Nimitz Jr., son of World War II's Pacific Fleet commander, made a hard decision: he will resign from the Navy (with the rank but not the pay of rear admiral*), take a higher-paying job with Texas Instruments Inc., an electronics firm. His seadog father, he said, did not want him to resign, but "understands the situation." Some 88 other Navy captains understand the situation and have applied for retirement this year, including famed...
...first victory, a few days after Stalin's death (a victory undoubtedly obtained with the support of other Old Communists), had been to ease Stalin Protégé Malenkov out of the First Party Secretaryship, and 23 months later to force him to resign the Premiership, pleading incompetence ("My insufficient experience, my guilt and responsibility") on the way. This success may have given Khrushchev the key to his later maneuverings, for they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing...