For the Record

There is mounting congressional resentment at the difficulty of meeting with the President: he has granted special appointments to only fourteen of the 531 Senators and Representatives this session. Complaints have been heard from Rep. Preston (Georgia) who one day was refused an urgent request to discuss emergency air safety measures because the President’s schedule was overcrowded—only to find that he had golfed through the afternoon—and from Rep. Powell (New York) who claims to have been after Eisenhower for a conference on school integration since September 18 . . . . Harold Stassen will be offered a federal judgeship, if he wants it.

The Red Chinese are mounting a propaganda campaign which would provide them cover for sending “volunteers” to Indonesia. Peiping charges daily that the U.S. has intervened in Indonesia’s war, and implies that Red Chinese troops may be sent. Jakarta has carefully avoided charging U.S. intervention. … Italy’s general election showed a slight gain for the Christian Democrats, a slight gain for the combined Communists and Nenni Socialists. The Christian Democrats will thus continue to govern Italy; but we shall be hearing less about how Hungary hurt the Communists…. Both Colombia and Brazil have been buying up surplus coffee from native growers. Exports of coffee are still restricted by both countries to support the price abroad. The result: both countries need foreign aid “desperately.”

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There is mounting congressional resentment at the difficulty of meeting with the President: he has granted special appointments to only fourteen of the 531 Senators and Representatives this session. Complaints have been heard from Rep. Preston (Georgia) who one day was refused an urgent request to discuss emergency air safety measures because the President’s schedule was overcrowded—only to find that he had golfed through the afternoon—and from Rep. Powell (New York) who claims to have been after Eisenhower for a conference on school integration since September 18 . . . . Harold Stassen will be offered a federal judgeship, if he wants it.

The Red Chinese are mounting a propaganda campaign which would provide them cover for sending “volunteers” to Indonesia. Peiping charges daily that the U.S. has intervened in Indonesia’s war, and implies that Red Chinese troops may be sent. Jakarta has carefully avoided charging U.S. intervention. … Italy’s general election showed a slight gain for the Christian Democrats, a slight gain for the combined Communists and Nenni Socialists. The Christian Democrats will thus continue to govern Italy; but we shall be hearing less about how Hungary hurt the Communists…. Both Colombia and Brazil have been buying up surplus coffee from native growers. Exports of coffee are still restricted by both countries to support the price abroad. The result: both countries need foreign aid “desperately.”