For the Record

Middle-East observers insist the Soviets engineered the Syria-Egypt merger, with oil as the contemplated “spoils.” On the eve of the merger, President Al-Kuwatly of Syria formally accepted a luxurious 32-seat personal airliner, complete with office and bedroom, from the Soviet Union …. Across Asia, the Soviets are increasingly concerned with the vigor of Japan’s economic recovery. Japanese Communist elements are being urged to undertake all possible disruptive activities to slow down the Soviets’ historic enemy in the Far East.

Lobbyists for Alaskan statehood now are confident that Alaska will be voted the 49th state at this session of Congress, and will send one Republican and one Democratic Senator to Congress in the fall elections . . . . Washington intimates of Senator H. Alexander Smith expect him to change his mind for the fourth time and re-enter the New Jersey primary fight within the next two weeks . . . . Since 1954 there has been a mass exodus from Communist China. On the destinations of these freedom-seeking subjects of Mao Tse-tung, the statistics read: nonCommunist nations, four million; Communist nations, zero …. A first-class mail rate increase from three to four cents now seems a certainty.

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Middle-East observers insist the Soviets engineered the Syria-Egypt merger, with oil as the contemplated “spoils.” On the eve of the merger, President Al-Kuwatly of Syria formally accepted a luxurious 32-seat personal airliner, complete with office and bedroom, from the Soviet Union …. Across Asia, the Soviets are increasingly concerned with the vigor of Japan’s economic recovery. Japanese Communist elements are being urged to undertake all possible disruptive activities to slow down the Soviets’ historic enemy in the Far East.

Lobbyists for Alaskan statehood now are confident that Alaska will be voted the 49th state at this session of Congress, and will send one Republican and one Democratic Senator to Congress in the fall elections . . . . Washington intimates of Senator H. Alexander Smith expect him to change his mind for the fourth time and re-enter the New Jersey primary fight within the next two weeks . . . . Since 1954 there has been a mass exodus from Communist China. On the destinations of these freedom-seeking subjects of Mao Tse-tung, the statistics read: nonCommunist nations, four million; Communist nations, zero …. A first-class mail rate increase from three to four cents now seems a certainty.