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Plugs & Pressures. Chary as he was of words that might commit him, Nehru was as usual generous with advice. In Bonn he urged his West German hosts to seek reunification of Germany by "peaceful negotiations." In a speech before the German Foreign Policy Association at Königswinter he put in a vague plug for liberation of Russia's East European satellites ("They are, of course, under a certain domination . . . and I certainly believe they should be free") and a firm one for Red China's admission to the U.N. ("What is the good of calling...
...taste. Of the more than 600 young composers whose works the staff has reviewed, only 56 have received grants. "There is a lot of just good stuff; we are looking for art," explains Fromm. Although the initial awards are modest ($350 to $1,000), the foundation is prepared to "commit" itself to a composer for several years, i.e., to stay with him until he has achieved the reputation that will enable him to go on to bigger stipends from bigger foundations or stand alone. Beyond providing cash awards, the foundation arranges public performances of its composers' works, has them...
...Agreed, in a Senate-House conference, to split the difference between the mutual-security bills and allow the Administration to spend or commit $4,014,000,000 (it had asked for $4.9 billion) on the foreign-aid programs this year...
...irrigate 2,000,000 acres of desert, is estimated to cost $1.3 billion over a period of ten years. The U.S. has offered to grant $56 million outright and Britain another $14 million, for a start. Further grants have been promised, but cannot be guaranteed because the U.S. cannot commit Congress more than a year in advance. A major chunk is to come in the form of $200 million loans from the World Bank. Though most of the details of financing were settled months ago, there have been mysterious delays, which Nasser blames...
...Arabs read it and blew up. They insisted that the council must strike the whole paragraph out: such words might commit the four Arab states to more than a military truce with the Israelis. Syria's Delegate Ahmed el Shu-kairy said flatly that to satisfy the Arabs "the establishment of Israel, its membership in the U.N. . . will have to be revoked...