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...were urgent. The French Assembly had agreed to permit the West Germans to rearm only on the promise, offered by Mendes-France and confirmed by his successor, that there would be a new attempt to negotiate with the Russians before the Germans actually got their guns. Germany's staunch old Konrad Adenauer faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce...
Swine Talk. Labor's staunch old familiars ranged out onto the hustings last week to address a country which seemed to be basking in a kind of prosperous complacency. Calm Clement Attlee hastened about in a Humber Hawk chauffeured by his wife Violet, got an affectionate wel come everywhere. City-bred Herbert Mor rison, the party's No. 2, headed for Lancashire with his bride, a Lancashire lass, to try his cockney wit in a strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll...
...many years Finance Committee Chairman Harry Byrd has been as staunch a friend as reciprocal trade has had. Now, after hearing from
...trade, to argue against the bill. Asked Reed: "So you want to hear from the little guns first?" Replied Chairman Smith: "There are no little guns in Congress." Dan Reed took a seat at the foot of the table. Behind him, under an ornate gold-leaf mirror, sat another staunch protectionist, Illinois' Republican Representative Noah Mason, his cherub cheeks aglow with excitement. Cried Reed: "I formed my opinion about low tariffs as an infant during the Administration of Grover Cleveland. Yes, I formed my opinions when, gentlemen"-Reed paused to glare around the table-"when, gentlemen, I walked miles...
Ladejinsky has given advice on land redistribution in India and on Formosa, where he became a staunch friend of Chiang Kaishek. He venerated MacArthur, who awarded him a Certificate of Achievement. The Japanese government gave him a plaque for his "great and lasting services," and the U.S. Agriculture Department gave him its "Superior Service Award." He pushed U.S. agricultural sales to Japan, amounting last year to $480 million, about one-fourth of all American farm exports...