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...cost of victory was mounting. Virtually every Senator pledged to Morrissey's cause seemed increasingly embarrassed. Leverett Saltonstall, Teddy's senior colleague from Massachusetts, unhappily announced that he had changed his position from "no objection" to one favoring recommittal. Staunch Democratic allies of the Kennedys, notably Joseph Tydings of Maryland and Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, warned that in all conscience they might have to vote no. As one Democratic skeptic put it: "If they vote for this guy, how can they keep the political hacks in their own states off their necks...
...also hoped for a public, hands-off-India warning to China, but U.S. officials pointed out that such warnings have been already delivered to Peking. It was all sort of odd, for, while the U.S. was a staunch friend of India, it also hoped to keep some kind of contact with Pakistan, whose President last week was urging the U.S. to use its "considerable influence" to seek a settlement. The U.S. could only repeat its intention of continuing to work through the United Nations. But Secretary-General U Thant had little progress to report...
Into the Act. A lot of other people were getting into the act. Among them was British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, so far a staunch defender of U.S. involvement. At a Commonwealth meeting in London last week, Wilson proposed that a delegation of Commonwealth Ministers go to Washington, Moscow, Peking, Hanoi and Saigon to strive for peace. Everybody was very polite about the idea; even President Johnson professed himself to be "delighted." But for a variety of reasons, the mission would probably never get off the ground...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Ludwig Erhard, LL.D., Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Man of full dedication, honest realism, wise moderation and quiet conciliation, staunch and good friend of America. Alva Reimer Myrdal, L.H.D. Swedish educator, sociologist, public official and wife of Economist Gunnar Myrdal...
...URUGUAY, that staunch but unstuck little island of welfare-statism, the economy is reeling from the effects of a 26-day blackout of its banking system. The government ordered five banks to close, and all others went out on strike after charges of corruption and fraud against eleven top banking executives. Last week even the Central Bank itself was intervened for investigation. To add to the troubles, the country's cost of living has jumped 45% in the past year, the ruling, nine-man National Council has split into bickering factions, and Communists operating out of the Soviet embassy...