The United Nations bond issue is in serious trouble in the House. Oddly enough, the Katanga situation, which many here view as the UN’s Achilles heel, has little to do with the probability that Congress will turn thumbs down on the proposal. The real threat to the bond issue—as to so much of the Kennedy Administration legislative program—is voter reaction, forcefully expressed. A number of House members have polled their constituencies in the past eight months, and one thing which emerges from most of these polls is that the UN bond is about as popular as Mighty Casey was in Mudville that historic night. And this being an election year, the members are paying a good deal of attention to the opinion of the voters.
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