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...Diplomacy. While the U.S. was generally grasping the logic of the New Look, Admiral Radford was often out in front urging a firm military-diplomatic line against Communism. In 1953 Radford advised Eisenhower to revise Harry Truman's two-way U.S. blockade of the Formosa Strait. His points: Why guarantee the Chinese Reds against attack from the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa? Eisenhower weighed the risks, took the decision, forced Red China to deploy hundreds of thousands of defense troops along the South China coast. Two years later Radford and Dulles not only endorsed Ike's public promise-backed...
Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, for example, has some pretty strait-laced ideas about balanced figures. Testifying last week before a crowded session of the Joint Congressional Committee on the President's Economic Report. Humphrey warned: "If we retain our present high tax rates over a sufficiently long period of time, we won't be able to maintain the activities necessary to provide jobs for our people." But he turned down committee invitations to suggest ways of trimming President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion fiscal-1958 budget (TIME, Jan. 28). Urged Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph...
...that would satisfy enough Afro-Asians, and teamed up with India's Krishna Menon to achieve it. Once the Israelis withdrew, said Lodge, the U.N. troops would be "deployed on both sides of the armistice line, particularly in the sensitive Gaza and El Auja sectors" and "at the Strait of Tiran." Their mission. he said, would be "to restrain any attempt to exercise belligerent rights" contrary to the 1949 armistice agreement: in short, it was warlike of Israel to invade Egypt, but it was also warlike of Egypt to blockade the Gulf of Aqaba...
...past," the Secretary General, using powers already granted him by the General Assembly, should order the U.N. Emergency Force to "move in immediately behind the withdrawing Israeli forces to assure the maintenance of the cease-fire"-specifically, "along the Egyptian-Israeli armistice line and in the area of the Strait of Tiran [Aqaba...
...Administration banked on that understanding as it undertook a far-reaching mission: to persuade Congress to approve as swiftly as possible sweeping changes in immigration laws. By broadening existing legislation, easing the strait-laced requirements of the McCarran-Walter Act, the U.S. would be able to admit not merely 21,500 Hungarian refugees who fled their country's October uprising, but worthy thousands of anti-Soviets who escaped Iron Curtain countries earlier, and have been waiting in pitiful refugee camps abroad for a chance to enter...