NOTE IN THE NEWS
The New Nixon Elsewhere in these pages we suggest that Vice President Richard M. Nixon, with all his faults, would make a better President, under present circumstances, than Mr. Eisenhower. We...
...Dulles' own State Department has completed a survey of the Soviet economic offensive, and it shows how wrong Mr...
...The Guaranty Trust Company of New York has been buying full-page advertisements to denounce the Tennessee Valley Authority program...
...it is also the principal requirement for the continuation of human life...
...We will prove the superiority of our system...
...We mean to speak now with the weight of our whole lives...
...The technicians they send to underdeveloped countries are mostly propagandists for Communism," Mr...
...As they prepared to leave, one of the Englishmen turned to the Vice President and said: "You make a great deal of sense, sir...
...The committee, which sponsored a protest project last summer at the Nevada test site, told Admiral Strauss: "For years we have spoken and written of the suicidal military preparations of the Great Powers but our voices have been lost in the massive effort of those responsible for preparing this country for war...
...When will he act on the wisdom of his own words...
...Dulles has been again...
...The Truth Filters Through Secretary of State Dulles used to sneer at Soviet proffers of economic aid to underdeveloped countries in Asia and Africa...
...The Progressive fought him at every turn since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1946...
...Nixon who campaigned against Helen Gahagan Douglas by trying to impeach her loyalty and patriotism...
...Khrushchev last fall: "We declare war upon you in the peaceful field of trade . . . and . . . production...
...You have every right to speak up against TVA...
...How do you account for what you did then and what you say now...
...They can't possibly sustain a program of this kind...
...And yet, less than a week later, when he presented his budget message to Congress, the President seemed to repudiate his own sound counsel by proposing to spend more than thirty times more in military appropriations than in foreign economic aid—$40,000,000,000 for arms versus $1,275,000,000 for foreign economic aid...
...Is he forever doomed because he sinned before...
...Golden Rule' Non Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, a coordinating committee of leaders of several American organizations working for peace, has announced a project of protest against the test explosions of nuclear weapons scheduled for April in the Pacific...
...Dilemma The Vice President has been so careful to say the right things—much of the time lately—that he has created a problem for Democratic Party publicists...
...No reason in the world, Mr...
...This Englishman, who despised the old Nixon as much as we did, told us a story of a recent dinner meeting of the Vice President and two British correspondents...
...You don't in the least sound like the same Mr...
...Isn't this kind of struggle supposed to be just our dish...
...Dulles used to say...
...President Eisenhower was so right to warn that this Soviet economic challenge is greater than the military menace...
...Navy during World War II, and William R. Huntington of Long Isand, also an architect...
...Dale E. Sharp, president of the bank, said the advertisement reflected the "private opinion" of the bank's officials, "and I see no reason why we shouldn't express it...
...I can only say," said the Vice President, "that I was a very young— and a very hungry—politician...
...We are relentless in this...
...One-shot stuff," he used to say...
...The Soviets know only the methods of terror and totalitarianism...
...To which another Democrat, fearful that a new Nixon would be a far more troublesome foe than the old, offered the (to him) horrible prospect that "Nixon might begin to believe the things he is saying, and act on them, and then where would we [Democrats] be...
...I believe I have learned much since then...
...But now State Department studies show, the New York Times reports, that Russian technicians abroad "have kept apart from the local citizens, have not been used as political proselytizers," and that their conduct "so far has given rise to few complaints...
...Words and Deeds In his State of the Union message, President Eisenhower pounded hard at the need for a vastly increased program of foreign economic aid to underdeveloped countries...
...It is a task in which we would have our nation lead.' We, by our action, would be asking our fellow citizens to accept the lesser dangers and the greater opportunity that such an approach implies...
...He insisted, in fact, that the Soviet economic drive, if underestimated, "could defeat the free world regardless of our military strength" and he argued that failure to respond to the Soviet challenge in this field would have a "much more serious impact" than the launching of the Soviet earth satellites...
...As they have occasionally in the past, the Soviets gave us fair warning...
...Ernest Gruening, recently governor of Alaska and author of our January issue article, "Colonialism at Home," wrote a book called The Public Pays, in which he exposed, among other practices, the way in which private utilities pass along to their helpless customers the costs of waging propaganda warfare against public power...
...they just don't have the materials...
...One of them blurted out the awful dilemma in our presence one night by demanding: "How can you attack a guy who insists on saying the right things...
...We are not now convinced he has changed all his spots, but some of them do look different from those of the Nixon of a decade and even a year ago...
...The practice has now been widened to include a great American bank, which passes part of the cost of anti-public ownership propaganda onto the taxpayers of the nation...
...Now Mr...
...Sharp...
...We expect we'll catch our comeuppance from some of our subscribers who believe that he is still the "Tricky Dickie" of the past and that if he is, no one could conceivably be a poorer choice for President under these or any other circumstances...
...The other two crew members have not yet been named...
...And in the words of an exasperated British journalist we encountered in Washington: "Don't you have anything in this country resembling a statute of limitations on a man's past...
...But why make the public pay for the "private opinion" you and your associates hold...
...By our effort in the Pacific we mean to say to all men, 'We are here because stopping preparation for nuclear war is now the principal business of our lives...
...The latter were enormously impressed by Nixon's eloquent espousal of the progressive position on race relations, foreign economic aid, fair procedures in the investigation and trial of alleged subversives, and a number of other issues...
...Official studies reveal that the Soviet Union had agreed in the last two and a half years to provide ten underdeveloped countries with $1,-500,000,000 in economic aid—considerably more than the United States is making available in the economic field...
...The Public Pays Years ago Dr...
...You sound quite different from the man you were once thought to be...
...Insisting that this is part of its legitimate banking function, Guaranty Trust is able to stick the taxpayers with 52 per cent of the cost of the ads...
...In a letter addressed to Admiral Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, the committee asserted its intention to sail a small vessel into the danger zone surrounding the test area and remain there while the weapons are being exploded...
...We denounced his smear campaigns and character assassination, his harnessing of the Red hysteria for political purposes even before the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy gave his name to a new and hateful ism, his voting record on a variety of issues, and his warlike utterances on a number of occasions...
...Their offers are intended for propaganda purposes only...
...Among the four-man crew of the Golden Rule are Albert Bigelow, a Connecticut architect, who was a lieutenant commander in the U.S...
...they will never be able to get along with the underdeveloped countries," Mr...
...Dulles used to say...
...The American Public Power Association has protested the tax exemption for purely propaganda advertisements in no way related to the banking business, but the Federal Trade Commission and the Internal Revenue Bureau, where the complaints were lodged, are pretty heavily staffed at the top with Eisenhower appointees—and the boss has said that "TVA is creeping socialism...
...But the State Department now confesses that "the Soviet bloc's economic offense in underdeveloped areas is being carefully and skillfully executed...
...We yield to no one in our loathing of the old Nixon...
...Said Mr...
Vol. 22 • February 1958 • No. 2
