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Other doubts were wrapped up in an amendment giving Dwight Eisenhower the power to withhold $1 billion of aid from Europe until the European Defense Community, with a unified army, is created. Sponsored jointly by Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Majority Leader Taft, the amendment was adopted without a dissenting voice after only three minutes of discussion...
From the Senate, the bill-$2.3 billion less than the Truman Administration proposed and $156 million less than the Eisenhower Administration requested-went to Senate-House conference. The House version would authorize only $4.9 billion, would flatly withhold $1 billion from Europe until the European Defense Community is a reality. No matter which way the final version leans, there seemed to be little doubt that the end of donation diplomacy is in sight...
...Doctors and patients should not be scared away from the use of new and powerful drugs by warnings of their dangers or reports of occasional deaths, said the New England Journal of Medicine: "To withhold or ban most such drugs would reverse medical progress and lead to the death of many patients who might have been saved by the proper use of the drug...
...astonishing. The U.S. has [always had] the largest commitment in Korea and the loudest voice in the formation of policy. But Americans seem to expect Britain and other nations to place troops at the disposal of American commanders-to make their troops instruments of American policy-and yet to withhold all comment on that policy. Satellitism, surely! Face it: either regard the Korean war as an American venture ... or else regard it as a U.N. affair and stop being so damned sensitive to criticism from abroad. (No taxation without representation, you know...
...investigated is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigation, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge, it's time for students to stop going to school...