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...dead it was, who killed the bipartisan foreign policy? Administration spokesmen said the Republicans had done it-with their slings and arrows. Last week New York's Irving Ives rose in the Senate to point a Republican finger in the opposite direction...
...issue causing all the trouble: whether federal funds should go to private and parochial as well as public schools. Roman Catholic spokesmen were plumping for a definite commitment to parochial schools. Their opponents wanted all private schools barred. The Senate bill, which left the matter up to each state, seemed to satisfy nobody on the committee...
...ardent spokesmen for the Democratic and Republican Parties, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and former Senator John Foster Dulles, locked horns over three crucial issues of the "Welfare State" last night: balancing the national budget, federal government vs. states rights, and material security vs. individual freedom and individual social responsibility...
...Standard's charges were true-up to a point. Strachey, after joining Sir Oswald Mosley (1931), had broken with him by 1935 and made the small but conspicuous shift to Communism. He says he never became a party member, but he was certainly one of the most influential spokesmen for Stalinism in the English-speaking world of the Swirling Thirties...
...ship 100 million bushels of wheat to Western Germany and Japan this year under the 38-nation International Wheat Agreement. Since the grain will be paid for in U.S. dollars, the U.S. took the view that it should be U.S. wheat, of which there is a surplus. Canadian spokesmen argued that the object of the wheat agreement was to restore normal world wheat trade, not provide dumping machinery for surpluses. Canada asked for a quota of between 20 and 30 million bushels...