Republican Party leaders hear that Sherman Adams is seeking support as the number two man on the ticket in 1960. Adams is said to believe that if he succeeds in getting such a commitment, a deadlocked convention would choose him for the top of the ticket. . . . Judge Robert Morris has promised that if he is elected to the Senate, he will “forcefully support a reduction of our top income tax rates to no more than 50 per cent.” . . . Veteran lawmakers expect a heated battle over Administration proposals to liberalize the selective immigration law. Civic groups in the more populated states are alarmed by the predicted 60 million natural increase in U.S. population over the next twenty years.
America’s European allies do not share Washington’s optimism about an upturn in the U.S. economic picture. The West Berlin Telegraf summed up the opinion on the Continent as follows : “Rising American exports , coupled with sinking American imports, can only have the effect of rapidly disorganizing the international economic order. …” The West German government has announced the sale of Junkers, the aircraft company whose main factory was almost completely destroyed by Allied bombers in 1944, to private interests.




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