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...John Foster Dulles marched boldly and noisily to the brink and tiptoed back on several occasions...

...It hasn't come...

...Sam's nephew...

...Speaker Sam Rayburn (D.-Tex...

...President Kennedy's idea of coexistence is that Russia should keep its hands off Latin America, French Africa...

...British Kenya and the Dutch East Indies, wait for time to cure Western resentment against admitting China to the UN, and permit inspectors to check suspicious blasts in the tundra east of the Timan Mountains...

...This assumes that Russia is no more anxious to stumble into a shooting war over Berlin than we are, and that Khrushchev will be a lot easier to talk to when he finds Jack isn't fooling...

...reputation as the guardian of the free world...

...He obviously does not want a united, anti-Russian Germany...

...at least one accusation has proved to be completely phony...

...and ? are testing each other's nerves over Berlin...

...President Kennedy has made the decision, against considerable advice, that this is the time to stand firm and maintain Allied control of West Berlin, even if it means shooting...

...Questionnaires filled out after the Cuban fiasco showed a "favorable" response...

...Instead, it is polishing up old ideas to shine a bit more and combing through the Thesaurus and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for better phrases than we have been used to for eight years...

...The alleged "acts of terror" against Arab Communists by UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser took place more than a year ago...

...The recent Soviet setbacks are a somewhat unexpected bonus, but they do not brush away the slight mist of disillusionment hovering over Washington...

...American prestige suffered a series of blows beginning in 1952, when the GOP high command decided to promise to bring the boys home in order to win the election...

...In Khrushchev's idiom, it means the West will dismantle its bases encircling the "peace-loving Socialist peoples," that the West will refrain from "fascist plots" to undermine the Russian hold on the satellites, that the West will accept a Soviet veto on the United Nations, arms control and test inspections and that the USSR may assist "wars of liberation against imperialism" and "safeguard the democratic right" of Communists to operate in Syria or Cuba...

...He lost this district by 22,000 last November in the Presidential election...

...We waited on our toes for the fresh breeze, the new vigor, the sound and music of change...

...This mood was explained the other day by a respected Washington observer...

...President de Gaulle has believed it all along...

...He believed this was the surest path to disenchantment with the USSR...

...The powerful Voice of the Arab World radio, heard throughout the Moslem world and well into Africa, said a few days ago that what Russia really wants is "the right to destroy and sabotage the gains made by Arab nationalism," and accused it of "Communist machinations the launching of fabricated slanders seeking to impose a ruling system that would have given them complete domination over our future...

...Khrushchev roars out the familiar Russian threats...

...Even the Democratic leaders of Congress are restive...

...But with Kennedy, and particularly after that beautiful inaugural address, we expected so much...

...piloted through the Senate...

...There are some nervous stomachs in London and Washington, but Kennedy is saying this is the hour for a showdown...

...Another source of Kremlin displeasure is the organization of a "neutralist bloc" by Nasser and Yugoslav President Tito...

...Chet Holifield (D.-Calif...

...There is evidence, too, that the Soviet Union is in a tight economic squeeze...

...Eighty-nine per cent approved Kennedy's foreign operations, and 82 per cent his domestic policies...

...gruffly beat down the Administration's plan to give more authority to the outspoken Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Newton N. Minow...

...The Administration is not producing new ideas for old problems and trying to sell them with a contagious zeal...

...McCormack insists on aid for parochial schools, and to hell with Jack Kennedy and his program...

...Just sighed at the unreasonableness of the voters, and gone about our business...

...Behind the closed doors of the House Ways and Means Committee, two Republican Congressmen took turns flaying the drawn-faced Secretary of the Treasury, Douglas Dillon...

...Right now, Messrs...

...Another and more practical explanation is that East Germany has become a terribly expensive operation for the USSR, and Khrushchev wants to find a way to get out from under it, if this can be done safely...

...He left no false impressions, as Eisenhower did at Camp David...

...There is agreement all around town that President Kennedy faced his adversary in Vienna with courage and determination, if he was lacking in imagination...

...Soviet diplomats in Washington are whispering all over town that Khrushchev is really very, very determined about Berlin and that he wants a German settlement before the Bonn Government develops its own nuclear weapons and then becomes impossible to handle...

...By Tristram Coffin Same Answers to Same Old Problems Dampen Spirits of Kennedy Backers A THIN MIST of heat blurs the shining dome of the Capitol on these hot still summer mornings...

...In fact, the sudden Soviet propaganda attack on the United Arab Republic [see "The Moscow-Cairo Rift," page 8] may be a signal that the Russians will pull out of the Aswan High Dam project...

...And, almost like a mist, a slight sense of melancholy drifts over Washington...

...Water is being wasted and rivers polluted...

...who several years ago advised allowing the Egyptians to accept Soviet aid...

...Moscow's difficulty with the Arabs vindicates Senator Mike Mansfield (D.-Mont...

...Chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, has opened the annual Pentagon drive to resume nuclear testing...

...John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, the tall, greying House Majority Leader, sometimes referred to in the cloakrooms as the "Cardinal of Capitol Hill," has all but destroyed the aid to education bill that Wayne Morse (D.-Ore...

...Yet the Republicans obviously think the bloom is off the rose...

...Khrushchev is being pelted with demands from the Russian people for better housing and consumer goods...

...The President is having some trouble selling this idea to the British...

...On foreign aid, it has been like changing partners at the dance, but its the same old cha cha cha: President Kennedy, instead of President Eisenhower, is earnestly asking a reluctant and fidgety Congress to appropriate billions without any clear evidence of more effective use for the funds...

...If Nixon had been elected," he said, "we wouldn't have expected much...

...hopes, may warn other nations against going for a waltz on the terrace with the Russians...

...he is like the Texan who believes that the 27½ per cent oil depletion allowance is a divine right...

...The new national chairman, cocky Representative William Miller of New York, one of the Young Turks of the right, is slamming away with all of the zest of an upperclassman with a fraternity paddle...

...Dwight Eisenhower, if he has taken to reading the newspapers, must be smiling quietly...

...The disillusionment apparently has not spread far beyond Washington, for a study of the Second Congressional District of Wisconsin—farmers, intellectuals at the University of Wisconsin, part of the Milwaukee suburbs—shows many think the President is doing a good job...

...Nikita Khrushchev apparently was impressed by the President's frankness and politeness, for the Russian press and radio has avoided the personal attacks on Kennedy that were a regular feature almost up to the Vienna meeting and are still being blared out over Radio Peking...

...Many Republicans have never forgiven Dillon, an Eisenhower sub-Cabinet member, for accepting a top post under President Kennedy...

...We can be just as tough and durable as the Soviets, and thus redeem the U.S...

...These developments, together with Communist failures in agriculture, the U.S...

...The Soviets are overcommitted on economic aid, and have disillusioned the Chinese and Middle Eastern areas by poor performance...

...He said what was needed to be said, and he spoke with dignity...

...Russian agriculture has had a bad year in both the "new lands" and the Ukraine...

...Radio Cairo also trumpeted that Communists in northern Iraq a year ago "butchered and murdered wholesale" before the terror was put down by Premier Abdul Karim Kassim's loyal troops...

...Apparently, the charges were a smoke screen behind which Russia could belabor the Arabs...

...Negroes are still being beaten up and thrown in jail in the South for demanding their rights...

...Khrushchev has said all this with a perfectly straight face...

...The White House apparently forgot that Commissioner Robert T. Bartley is Mr...

...The same old cold war, same Berlin crisis, the same problem of erupting nationalism and the same answers from the Administration...

...The Russians may be enraged at the thought that the Arab nations which they cultivated with tours to the old mosques at Tashkent, scholarships, technical missions and political help are slipping away from Soviet control...

...The Vienna conference served one major purpose: It showed that Moscow and Washington have quite different conceptions of coexistence...

...And this winter, we're likely to have five million looking for jobs...

...National defense is eating up a fourth of the national income...