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From the desk of Harry S. Truman last week emerged an 1,800-word state paper exclusively devoted to garlic. U.S. garlic growers, a small but vociferously selfish band, had persuaded the Tariff Commission to restrict garlic imports so severely that Italy, one of the chief foreign suppliers, stood to lose more than half her U.S. sales, which in 1951 totaled about $420,000* Pointing out that Italy had done a good job of combating Communism, the President bravely overruled his commission. The decision to abolish the garlic quota, declared one State Department official, would breathe new life into...
...House has already given overwhelming approval (206-68) to a similar measure. Next move is up to Harry Truman. Even if he vetoes the bill, basic immigration policy will not change. The U.S. will still be committed to the principle of national origins, which in many ways is as selfish and unjust as the liberals last week said it was. But in all the debate, nobody has appeared with a substitute principle that has much chance of acceptance by those already in the melting...
Back to Washington for a visit, after winning the Democratic nomination for Senator from Ohio, wisecracking Mike Di Salle was asked whom he would like to see heading the Republican ticket. His answer: "For selfish reasons I'd like to see them nominate Eisenhower. I can see Ike & Mike clubs springing up all over Ohio...
...have been urging him to reply favorably to Stalin's proposal for a reunited, rearmed but "neutralized" Germany. Adenauer stonily insisted that peace with the West and a place in Western rearmament should come first. There were ugly whispers in West Germany that Adenauer's stand was selfish, that if there were free, Germany-wide elections, his mainly Catholic and right-wing coalition would lose power in the deluge of Socialist votes from Protestant East Germany. Last week, Adenauer firmly derided this accusation. "I would be a bad Christian," he said, "if I would prefer to leave...
...concluded: "We must resist the attempt to get public money for such a competing school system and we must protect our democratic education again the selfish and alien philosophy represented by the parochial schools...