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...weak spots in coverage, while correspondents in turn severely criticize editors for not giving enough space to foreign reporting. "I do not know what happens to an American reporter who is assigned to foreign fields," says one editor. "Before very long his stories take on the same old mediocre handout-and sometimes propaganda-slant." Adds another editor: correspondents often "write like foreign ministers...
...Handout. Where would the money come from? The commonsense answer: from the sale of its oil. But this involves a matter that no Iranian politician dared talk about yet, an agreement with Britain. Iran had ousted Mossadegh, but not outgrown him. Even the mild-mannered Shah last week said: "Let there be no mistake. There has been no change in the national movement...
Iran's survival therefore depended directly on a U.S. handout. President Eisenhower, pleased at the turn of events in Iran, was yet aware that they were also going to play hob with his attempt to cut down foreign spending. The State Department tentatively decided that the best it could offer at the moment is about $20 million out of a special emergency MSA fund. Before the U.S. threw Iran this life preserver, it wanted to discuss the rescue operation with Britain. Called in, British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins said that he realized the importance of keeping Iran...
...Negro may give a white panhandler a handout but he may not follow him into a bar with the sign, "Whites only." He may attend the graduate schools of state universities (about 1,000 do), but he may not attend undergraduate colleges?with some exceptions (e.g., University of Louisville, University of Delaware). In such schools Negro and white students get on without friction, and form friendships; but the Negroes, while they eat with whites, may not belong to white fraternities?but they are allowed to attend dances as guests...
...policy, said Secretary of State Dulles, will mean cuts in U.S. aid to the NATO partners: "The era of the handout is over." It also means that the U.S., after years of prodding its allies and providing them leadership, has decided to "let Europeans be the pacemakers" for Western defense...