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one urging him to repeal it. But old Lyndon calmly outfoxed him—all in the day’s work. To the letter urging him not to repeal he wrote: “As you may know, this question was before the Senate during the last session of Congress, and at that time I voted against removing this requirement as a condition to obtaining a student loan under the act.” Most cordially, etc., etc. And to the letter urging repeal, he wrote, “I do not see that the disclaimer affidavit adds anything to the strength of the oath of allegiance required by the act. In fact, a bill I introduced to provide loan assistance for college students through a Government insurance program does not include the provisions which you find objectionable.” Most cordially, etc.

• We trust one of President Eisenhower’s lieutenants clipped the dispatch in last week’s New York Times for appropriate condensation. The news story documented the un-strange bedfellowship of Abdel Nasser and Fidel Castro—an Arab-Caribbean neutralist entente working at top speed to turn all Latin America into an anti-American camp. last year alone, the UAR extended in Latin America to include, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Its minister, Mohammed el Tabei, has or noted anti-American sentiment in Panama and elsewhere. (We note, in passing, the outcrop of swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans in the area since this increase in pan-Arabic activity.) Arab commercial interests in Latin America are negligible; Arab population virtually nonexistent. The increased activity, and its concentration on Panama, can mean only one thing: Part Two of the Canal Seizure Story—“Panama, Son of Suez.”

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one urging him to repeal it. But old Lyndon calmly outfoxed him—all in the day’s work. To the letter urging him not to repeal he wrote: “As you may know, this question was before the Senate during the last session of Congress, and at that time I voted against removing this requirement as a condition to obtaining a student loan under the act.” Most cordially, etc., etc. And to the letter urging repeal, he wrote, “I do not see that the disclaimer affidavit adds anything to the strength of the oath of allegiance required by the act. In fact, a bill I introduced to provide loan assistance for college students through a Government insurance program does not include the provisions which you find objectionable.” Most cordially, etc.

• We trust one of President Eisenhower’s lieutenants clipped the dispatch in last week’s New York Times for appropriate condensation. The news story documented the un-strange bedfellowship of Abdel Nasser and Fidel Castro—an Arab-Caribbean neutralist entente working at top speed to turn all Latin America into an anti-American camp. last year alone, the UAR extended in Latin America to include, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Its minister, Mohammed el Tabei, has or noted anti-American sentiment in Panama and elsewhere. (We note, in passing, the outcrop of swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans in the area since this increase in pan-Arabic activity.) Arab commercial interests in Latin America are negligible; Arab population virtually nonexistent. The increased activity, and its concentration on Panama, can mean only one thing: Part Two of the Canal Seizure Story—“Panama, Son of Suez.”