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...said the President firmly, "much still remains [undone] that is of vital significance to every American citizen." Still pending: bills to accomplish a fairer distribution of the tax burden, broaden unemployment insurance and social security, improve housing conditions and strengthen the internal security net. Said the President, aiming at would-be security watchdogs on Capitol Hill: "Scarcely need I assure such an audience as this that I-and my every associate in Government-will keep everlastingly at the job of uprooting subversion wherever it may be found. My friends, I do not believe that I am egotistical when...
...when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian-Democratic government announced plans to set up its own ministry of information, the free press of Germany howled objections. Political reporters banded together, passed a resolution charging that information ministries are "unusual in democratic states and, [if set up in Germany, might] strengthen tendencies aiming at infringement of the freedom and independence of the press...
When the U.S. first proposed, last November, to strengthen Middle East defenses against Russia by providing arms aid for Pakistan, Pakistan's Bad Neighbor Nehru fanned up a white hot rage in India against American policy. But the U.S. persisted in negotiations with Karachi, and last week-in comparative quiet-signed a one-year military-aid agreement with Pakistan...
...Administration, set up by the New Deal in depression-ridden 1934 to encourage housing loans by insuring mortgages. Not only has FHA helped millions build and repair their homes; it has not cost taxpayers a cent, even made $91.9 million last year. President Eisenhower asked Congress to expand and strengthen the housing program. But when scandal suddenly broke out in the FHA last April, congressional clamor arose for safeguards. Now, under the guise of cleaning up FHA, Congress is falling short on Eisenhower's housing program...
...Strengthen the Middle. What is the defense against slow penetration? Reporter Barzini has no magic formulas. He believes in reinforcing the"state authority" and in"methodic, inflexible application of the penal and civil codes, the prosecution of illegal practices, of corruption and indulgence in our public life, the moderni- zation of bureaucracy, all that reassures a confused public that there is protection under the law, that there is no need to seek protection from the Communists...