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...into the Western alliance. It was a great example of a successful international conference, conducted according to the formula of Ike's speech to the land-grant educators. In a message to the Senate, the President pointed out that the agreements (which restrict Germany to twelve divisions) will tighten NATO control over all West European nations and foster the dream of European cooperation. Said he: "The agreements endanger no nation. On the contrary, they represent one of history's first great practical experiments in the international control of armaments...
Subversives. Two Administration bills designed to tighten U.S. security were pigeonholed. The President wanted laws giving the Government authority to 1) bar suspected spies from defense plants, and 2) dissolve Communist-led unions and other organizations. The House Judiciary Committee killed the bills, called for more study...
...program will also tighten the bonds between freshmen and the Dean's Office. "I feel that most official contact with first-year men is naturally made in the Yard," von Stade said. "The new plan would only serve to formalize this by assigning more freshmen to resident tutors...
Doctored & Fabricated. Would Lippmann's view impair Congress' ancient and valuable right of investigation? Not necessarily. Congress has a right to inquire into how well its laws are enforced and to loosen or tighten laws if it finds enforcement unsatisfactory. But Congress has no right to encourage-as McCarthy has encouraged-violations of law and loyalty on the part of officers and employees of the Executive branch. It has no right to set up a network of spies in the Executive branch, demoralizing it and creating a situation where the Secretary of the Army, for example, cannot function...
...these revisions in the organization and quota system are the major advantages of the new bill, numerous other provisions add to its merit. Especially needed are alterations in its present blunderbuss security provisions that trap innocent visitors and ship crewmen in the confusion of intricate safeguards. The bill would tighten regulations against the possible entrance of actual subversives while removing the unnecessary and complicated security checks. In addition, many passages of the McCarran Act are reworded to eliminate harsh, ambiguous, and inconsistent standards...