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...Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, called Kennedy's tariff-cutting requests "a major act of statesmanship," but said it is "anyone's guess" whether Congress will give him the authority he requested over tariff rates...
...Friedrich acknowledged that some elements of American economy would be temporarily disturbed, but said the economy as a whole would be strengthened in a few years...
Haberler and Friedrich both said that the present high level of unemployment and the balance of payments deficit would lessen the chances of Kennedy getting the requested legislation at the present time...
...Germany, Friedrich said, every town of any size has a government-subsidized opera house, and the ministers of education of the various states compete fiercely for the most outstanding performers...
Excellence in the arts, he explained, is primarily the result of competition. while a totalitarian state "usually has a deleterious effect on art," a world of totalitarian states having the same concept of beauty, might produce a great artistic revival, he maintained. Friedrich added, "the would be particularly true if there had been more or less of an agreement that other forms of competition, such as war, were undesirable...