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...develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section of the soil-bank program (a good part of that saving might be offset by increased subsidies). Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, while avoiding talk of tax increases, plugged for renewal of the 52% corporation tax rate...
France, which fears an Anglo-U.S. monopoly of nuclear weapons, will demand that control of any missile warheads based on French soil be vested in NATO rather than in the U.S. It is inadmissible, says Premier Gaillard, that some allies "should be a bit more equal than others." What the French most want is a formal reaffirmation that Algeria is included in the NATO area, plus a pledge that no NATO member will take action affecting the interests of another member without prior consultation...
...with some reservations. Many European civilians felt a little nervous at learning for the first time that their countries were to be the bases for strategic retaliation. The Norwegians and Danes, who have long since made it clear that they want no strategic missile bases on their soil, remained uninterested. The Dutch and Belgians still felt NATO ought to concentrate more heavily on building up conventional forces for the defense of The Netherlands and Belgium. The West Germans, whose enthusiasm for missile sites within their frontiers is restrained, grumbled that they were fed up with learning of basic U.S. decisions...
Another objection was Dulles' stipulation that the U.S. (in view of the atom-denying McMahon Act) will keep the nuclear warheads "in the custody" of the U.S. Said the neutralist Le Monde, speaking for a considerable body of French opinion: "France cannot shelter on her soil arms of massive destruction which expose her to reprisals unless she is associated in the decision to use them...
...gives a complete answer to the one question Americans have most regularly asked me. "What happened to all our taxpayers' money in Germany?" Your story is the best possible confirmation that the Marshall Plan was an investment in West Germany. The U.S. furnished the seed, Erhard tilled the soil and planted it; the cold war provided the hothouse atmosphere; the German people are bringing in the harvest. H. E. REISNER Publisher Made, in Europe Frankfurt, West Germany...