Not saying it publicly, but displeased over steel settlement, is Treasury Secretary Anderson, who sees it as major setback to his fight for stable dollar. . . . Expect plenty of fireworks over civil rights legislation in Congress as Democratic Presidential hopefuls vie for northern Negro and Liberal votes. The White House planning to stay out of this one. … Republicans, who know it’s mathematically impossible to win the Senate in November, concentrating their efforts on House campaigns. … An American newspaperman recently released from a Cuban prison insists a twice-postponed anti-Castro revolution will be triggered this month. • . • Same source says Castro receiving equipment and money from Nasser. … Dr. Arthur L. Miller of Denver, the prominent Presbyterian minister who discovered, on an eleven-day trip to Cuba, that there were no Communists in the Castro government, now backtracking (presumably under pressure) . Miller now says his appraisal of Cuba was hasty, incomplete.
Not renewed, the India-China trade pact which expired at the end of the year. … Egyptian papers speculating that British Prime Minister Macmillan will visit Egypt during current African trip, formally ending Suez controversy. . . . Colonel Nasser ’ s memoirs of the Suez war will be published in March, according to Al Ahram, a leading Cairo organ. (What on earth will he say?) . . . Iraq now permitting formation of political parties, provided they aren’t either pro-Western or pro-Nasser. . . . Given prison sentences for allegedly black marketeering : two Polish newspapermen working for Western publications. One was the interpreter for New York Times correspondent A.M. Rosenthal, recently expelled from Poland for chronic truthfulness.




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