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Words & Deeds. Early in the week Moscow had made a plain bid to undercut the U.N. subcommittee by proposing that the nine nations that attended the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indo-China should meet again and revive the three-power (India, Poland, Canada) International Control Commission for Laos. The U.S., recalling that the Laos government itself 16 months ago refused to tolerate the Control Commission's interference any longer, rejected the Soviet proposal, recommended instead "the cessation of Communist intervention and subversion" in Laos. Backing up its words with deeds, the U.S. continued to pour into Vientiane light military...
...religion of the West and primarily of whites." But Eastern religions, once passive, are showing renewed vitality and missionary zeal. "A revived Christian evangelism reasserting its 'Great Commission' to convert, and hence to dissolve, all other faiths, will not only embarrass America before the world; it will undercut our foreign policy and lend new fuel to the appeal of Communism in the East . . . Let us stand separately for our various truths. Let us stand together for the peace of society. Let us not do to one another that which is hateful...
...suffered a heart attack. In June 1956, not long back on the job, he underwent surgery for ileitis. The months after that must have seemed to Ike just one damn thing after another. Overwhelmingly reelected, he had no sooner presented his program than his respected Treasury Secretary George Humphrey undercut him by publicly blurting out fears about a "hair-curling" depression; Ike failed to rebuke Humphrey, and the year's legislative battles were fought on the Humphrey, not the Eisenhower line. At Little Rock the President had the sad duty of sending federal troops into a state capital...
Hoffa himself, when he was pushing into New York in 1954, tried to undercut New York Teamster Thomas Hickey by offering trucking companies better terms than Hickey - at the expense of the Teamster rank and file. In several states, Hoffa permitted trucking firms, against drivers' protests, to save money by paying drivers an extra 1¼ or 1½ a mile in lieu of more expensive fringe benefits. A confidential memorandum from an Ohio trucking executive reports a conversation with George Maxwell, head of the Steel Truckers Employers Association. Says the memo, photostated by McClellan committee investigators: "George told...
Surprise Signs. A few of the Americans joined with other anti-Communists in Vienna to undercut the festival in a variety of ways. Free bus trips to view the barbed-wire border of Hungary were organized. Light planes circled over Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally...