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Capitol Hill was buzzing last week with reports of a two-hour conference between Secretary of State George Marshall and two of the 80th Congress' toughest characters. They were New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges and New York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...
Marshall insisted that the Senate restore funds for the Voice of America broadcasts, wiped out by Taber's committee last month. Bridges agreed to give Assistant Secretary of State Bill Benton some money for propaganda. Taber would not commit himself, but he has hinted that the House might restore something-not much...
...week's end, even the G.O.P.'s most ardent axman, New York's John Taber, conceded that there might be something in OIC, after all. If the "drones, the loafers, and the incompetents" were weeded out, said Taber, maybe his appropriations committee could see its way clear to allowing OIC $5 to $6 million. The Senate might appropriate even more...
...concluded that it was extravagantly operated, overstaffed with aliens, and-worst of all-pretty ineffective. Secretary Marshall disagreed. But to Karl Stefan, it seemed as if $31 million worth of food shipped to Europe would do more good than the best of OIC's propaganda efforts. John Taber agreed with Stefan...
Commerce's Civil Aeronautics Administration was mutilated almost beyond recognition. Despite congressional concern over air safety, the Taber committee recommended a $70.5 million slash in CAA funds, which would mean that after July 1 CAA could no longer maintain airport control towers (except in Washington). Its program for modernization of navigation aids would be cut in half. Observed the committee: "Air accidents will only be eliminated when people stop flying...