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...start of the meeting was slightly jarred by the eager-beavering of FOAdministrator Harold Stassen, who bounced around calling Democratic elders "Mr. Chairman" to the annoyance of their Republican opposite numbers, who technically still hold their congressional committee chairmanships...
...leaned over to the President to ask who Burgess was. Quipped Ike: "He's one of those 'damned Democrats for Eisenhower' from South Carolina." Despite this jolting news, the Democrats agreed to go along in principle with Ike's manpower proposals. In his turn, Harold Stassen dragged out a set of charts to disprove the idea in some Senators' minds that his program approached the order of magnitude of a "Marshall Plan for Asia." The Senators appeared to be much relieved...
...President named Dodge as chairman of a new Council on Foreign Economic Policy, whose other members will be Secretary of State Dulles, Treasury Secretary Humphrey, Commerce Secretary Weeks, Agriculture Secretary Benson, FOAdministrator Stassen and three top White House aides...
...basketful of problems awaits Joe Dodge. Differences of approach among Dulles, Stassen, Humphrey and others have stalled Eisenhower's none-too-vigorous past efforts to construct a clear-cut U.S. economic policy for the world (TIME, Dec. 13). Dodge would not go back into the Washington snake pit if he was not convinced that this time Ike is determined to get his foreign economic program through Congress-a task that must begin with agreement inside the Administration...
Partnership for Growth. To meet this need and challenge, the Eisenhower Administration is considering an imaginative proposal originally offered to the Government by M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies. Backed by a powerful segment of the State Department and by FOA's Harold Stassen, it calls on the U.S. to launch and lead a free world "Partnership for Economic Growth...