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Advance: Refugees. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, sponsor of the Administration bill to admit 240,000 refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries, asked the President to lend a hand in the hard-fought battle to get the bill reported out against the stubborn opposition of Nevada's Pat McCarran and Idaho's Herman Welker. Ike invited Watkins and McCarran to the White House, flatly turned down McCarran's compromise proposal to admit 124,000 refugees. Bolstered, Watkins went back to Capitol Hill and got a Judiciary Committee majority (not including McCarran) to agree...
...news called for exploitation of Communist troubles, it also emphasized the need for greater unity of the anti-Communist nations. On this front, too, the week brought a major development-Syngman Rhee's agreement to abide by the terms of a truce in Korea. Rhee's stubborn holdout had been in large part the result of the tragic U.S. failure to define clear goals in the Korean war. But the truce negotiations had gone so far that no advantage to the anti-Communists could be gained by delaying a truce. Rhee's stand, plus evidences of Communist...
Iran's wily Premier Mohammed Mossadegh gave a glaring example of this technique. He boastfully accepted the prospect of national bankruptcy involved in his stubborn refusal to negotiate with the British on compensation for oil nationalization. But he expected the U.S. to bail him out when the going got tough. A month ago he wrote a threatening letter to President Eisenhower...
...dealing with Rhee, the U.S. strategists and their emissaries had avoided two unwise extremes: 1) trying to remove stubborn old Syngman Rhee by a coup; 2) surrendering to him and going on with the war. They had proceeded on the assumption that Rhee would change his tune when he saw that no amount of guile or obstruction on his part would swerve the U.S. from its goal. Apparently Rhee became convinced...
...long as three weeks, the enzyme content of his blood is checked each day, his blood pressure taken as often as every half-hour, and he may be dunked into a pool now and then to gauge the water content of his body. Some arthritis patients with a stubborn type of anemia will give blood which will be made radioactive before it is put back into their systems; thus the researchers can test a theory that the red blood cells are dying off faster than normal...