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...explained, to dis cuss a rider which the Senate Appropriations Committee had unexpectedly at tached to the $1.1 billion appropriation for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce. The rider proclaimed that, if any aggressor government, i.e., Communist China, should be admitted to the United Nations, the U.S. would forthwith cut off all financial support...
Bargaining Points. For example, to placate Rhee (who kept insisting that he would accept no cease-fire that left enemy soldiers on Korean soil), the U.N. had demanded that 34,000 North Korean prisoners unwilling to accept repatriation be turned loose forthwith, leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...week the Federal Subversive Activities Control Board, after 14 months of hearings and 14,413 pages of testimony, issued a massively documented report that 1) riddled the U.S. Communist Party's pretension that it is a free and loyal American organization, and 2) ordered the party to register forthwith as an agent of the Soviet Union. The Communists refused to register, promised to take their case to the courts...
During its 62nd annual Continental Congress in Washington, the Daughters of the American Revolution announced that they had accepted proof that Private Benjamin Doud, born May 10, 1761 in Middletown, Conn., was a direct ancestor of Mamie Doud Eisenhower. The First Lady was forthwith welcomed into the D.A.R., and some 4,000 of the ladies trooped to the White House to welcome their newest member. It was the biggest White House reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed...
...circ. 171,500) ran a fact-packed series on sloppy state traffic enforcement, Superior Court Judge Horace E. Nichols took out after the paper. He demanded that the paper print the evidence he submitted to prove that the series was wrong. Constitution Editor Ralph McGill refused. Highhanded Judge Nichols forthwith cited McGill and Managing Editor William Fields for contempt of court, fined them each $200 and sentenced them to 20 days in jail (TIME, May 12). Last week, in what the Constitution called "a historic decision," Georgia's supreme court unanimously overruled Judge Nichols' decision...