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Drastic Measure. This anger earlier had led the Senate to slash aid funds to India by a crippling 25%, a cut the Administration had to scramble to restore...
...Senators also cut off all aid to such Communist nations as Yugoslavia and Poland (relenting only to allow surplus food to be sent) and blocked aid to any nation that seizes private U.S. property without prompt steps toward compensation. Last week the anger welled up in the House to produce a similar expropriation penalty, including a retroactive clause to punish Brazil-and thus put a damper on the Alliance for Progress. The House also rushed through a drastic amendment denying any special U.S. aid to the United Nations until all other nations had met all of their U.N. financial obligations...
...must take exception to the remark that I was "the only unhappy man in the hall." Members of the American embassy, press and band to whom I spoke shared my anger at Mr. Goodman's obvious lack of interest in making this performance of the Rhapsody a success. Indeed, after our rehearsal I would have canceled the performance outright had it not been for the very special circumstances. I might add that Mr. Goodman's sudden decision to stand on the far side of my piano took place at the last moment, while we were on stage...
...that provision-and thereby brought upon itself a deluge of denunciation. Eminent clergymen attacked the decision as "shocking" and "tragic." Members of Congress put forward a score of proposed constitutional amendments to nullify the effects of the ruling. Newspapers, snowed under by wrathful letters from readers, erupted in editorial anger. To the Supreme Court Building in Washington came hundreds of letters and telegrams agreeing with the sentiments of Los Angeles Municipal Judge Ida May Adams, who concluded her usual court-opening prayer with a new plea: "God bless the Supreme Court and in Your wisdom let it be shown...
...Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said with icy disdain, "attack anything they think comes from the Establishment...