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...spent the past ten years cramming democracy down the throats of the Japanese with a G.I. boot, and have succeeded so well that they have mustered a 75.8% vote in the recent election. We should invite a Japanese democratization commission to the U.S. to teach us how we can boost our turnout from the puny 63% we mustered in the 1952 election...
...worldwide effort to win friends and influence people for freedom, a major obstacle is the U.S. agricultural surplus. The total value of that surplus now stands at more than $7 billion. It is rising so fast that the Agriculture Department last week was getting ready to ask Congress to boost the borrowing authority of the Commodity Credit Corp. from $10 billion to $12 billion. This mountain of food has caused the U.S. to impose strict import quotas on agricultural commodities, a policy which is not only condemned by foreign nations, but is opposed by the U.S. itself when other nations...
When President Eisenhower approved a boost of up to 50% in tariffs on Swiss watches last summer, he gave a reason that even the most ardent low-tariff men found hard to attack. The Office of Defense Mobilization, said Ike, had found from an interdepartmental report that "preservation of the unique skills of this industry [in the U.S.] is essential to the national security." Last week, after months of prodding by U.S. watch importers, the Defense Department released a report of its own that took a position quite different from that...
...always been that the American public would not accept it. If President Eisenhower prepares the people slowly his great popularity can surely make the eventual diplomatic move acceptable. Other objections have been advanced, but none seems to survive close examination. Recognition would hardly undermine nearby Asian democracies or boost China as the "wave of the future." Not only do many Asian nations already have ties with Peiping, but U.S. recognition--as part of negotiated settlement--could appear as a tactical advance for the United States, Other objections often center around the problems of "Selling out" Chiang to Formosa...
RAPID RISE IN CREDIT will bring no tightening in the Federal Reserve rediscount rate until late April or May. Reason: U.S. Treasury within the next fortnight must borrow up to $3,500,000,000 on short-term notes. To boost the rediscount rate now would cost the Treasury millions in added interest...