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State Department men found that they could give foreign-aid administrators policy guidance on a long-term basis; they would check a few months later and find their guidance still controlling Stassen's operation. This is one of the most amazing, and perhaps the most important, facts of Eisenhower's Washington. Operations are necessarily conducted by specialists after the work has been broken into parts. Policy made at the operational level is apt to be fragmentary, uncoordinated, contradictory. Between them, Dulles and Stassen are demonstrating that what Washington for 20 years thought was a law of administrative life...
Despite adept leadership of both parties in both houses, party discipline on both sides was weak and party lines were blurred. An extreme example of this was last week's Senate vote on an important amendment to the foreign-aid program. The majority was made up of 27 Republicans and 26 Democrats: the minority was 17 Republicans, 17 Democrats and Wayne Morse. Reformers have long deplored rigid party discipline and yearned for independent legislators. More and more in recent years, Congress has moved in their direction as the power of patronage and party machines has declined. A Light Hand...
...should have told Congress on July 2, not waited until the last minute. Senators were sore about the delay, especially since they suspected that the Administration had deliberately waited until appropriations bills were passed: if Congress had got the debt-increase request a week earlier, it might have cut foreign-aid appropriations more deeply...
Other doings on Capitol Hill last week: ¶ A Senate-House conference weighed fatter (Senate) and leaner (House) versions of 1954 foreign-aid appropriations, agreed on a difference-splitting $5.1 billion-$3 billion less than the Administration requested. This week both houses passed the measure...
...into one night last week, the U.S. Senate debated foreign aid. Time after time, a majority voted down attempts to cut the $53 billion Mutual Security Agency bill approved by the Foreign Relations Committee. Finally, the bill was passed without a record vote and without a cent cut away, but this unwhittled survival did not indicate that the Senate was happy about the foreign-aid situation. In fact, it was apparent that the Senate was fed up with foreign aid...