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...ailing Lee-who has to be carried to Assembly sessions-resigned his office in protest. Corruption last week had become a major issue in war-torn South Korea: the National Assembly, like Lee, was sick of President Syngman Rhee's dishonest underlings. Latest scandal: embezzlement of some $800,000 in National Defense Corps funds...
...neither surprised nor particularly dazzled by the fact that the U.S. has been able at the same time to pour billions in dollars and goods into the war-torn countries of Europe and Asia. He is calmly convinced that the U.S. can now turn to building $50 billion a year worth of tanks, planes and guns with only a temporary halt in the flow of new houses, bigger television screens and better automatic toasters. "The productivity of the U.S. is so tremendous," said Charles Wilson recently, "that if we started an all-out economic mobilization today, we could practically fill...
...from 71 to 19 per 100,000 inhabitants. But socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where all else is hopeless, BCG has been given a fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope is that the vaccinations have cut tuberculosis morbidity...
...resolution also calls for 1) free U.N.-supervised elections and establishment of a democratic regime for all Korea; 2) a seven-nation U.N. commission to help set up the new government and help rehabilitate Korea; 3) speedy relief for the war-torn country...
...become law: "Its enactment would disasterously impair our influence over other freedom-loving peoples. If we leave aside military considerations, the best way to combat the spread of Communism in Western Europe and elsewhere is to give increased drawing-power to the great traditions of democracy and freedom. These war-torn countries want more than weapons, more than food and machinery. They are eager for ideals to strengthen the spirit and make life worth living ... Unless our acts show that we belive in our democratic ideals, we lesson the chance of winning wavering men to democracy...