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...came through with a loan ($100 million), and a platoon of economists, health officers, farmers and sociologists descended on the country, full of good will, all ready to help the Indonesian raise his standard of living, rebuild his country, increase his crops, strengthen his army, educate his people, improve his health and save him from Communism. Instead of being met with open arms, they found themselves treated with indifference, hostility and suspicion. Baffled, saddened, the experts went home, vaguely aware that to the Indonesians independence meant something quite different from the Western notions, and that the Indonesians are an Asian...
...Truman Administration's plan for a Middle East Defense Organization "is a future rather than immediate possibility." Meanwhile the U.S. "can usefully help strengthen the interrelated defenses of those countries which want strength...
...President: "The President asked Congress for a one-year extension of the reciprocal trade agreements . . . The Republicans looked at each other in embarrassed silence . . . Maybe we can find a few Republicans willing to go along with their President and get it passed . . . He has asked for steps to strengthen our allies in the battle against Communism. The Old Guard Republicans reply that they cannot go along. Only the Democrats can save this program. He has asked for steps to strengthen our fiscal position. A Republican chairman is ready to bottle his request in a House committee. Only the Democrats...
...establish the Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professorship at Union Theological Seminary. At Union's annual alumni dinner this week, President Henry P. Van Dusen announced the gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
...choice is simple and inescapable: are Congressional investigating committees to dictate the employment policies, and thereby the educational policies, of Harvard University and of our other universities and schools? For Harvard to stand fast now against the undemocratic pressures to fire her four courageous faculty members will be to strengthen and advance academic freedom and democracy. Rev. Amos C. Barstow Murphy...