Spring floods have destroyed almost 30,000 acres of crops in Yugoslavia. Resulting food shortages will increase the pressure for new U.S. aid to Tito. . . . The Reds are beginning to show their strength in Japan, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators were mobilized on May 1. Gomulka could rally only 100,000 in Warsaw. . . . The State Department is browbeating the Civil Aeronautics Board to grant Soviet airlines a concession to fly to the United States — and to fly regularly scheduled runs across the continent ! . . . Eustace Seligman, former law partner of John Foster Dulles, urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week to support UN membership for Red China — on condition it agrees to the independence of Nationalist Formosa, unification of Korea, and the release of all Americans held in China.
Representative H. R. Gross (Rep.) of Iowa has tabulated the costs of American foreign aid since July 1, 1940: $134,764,000,000. . . . The Fund for the Republic has just published a study on the threat to freedom posed by corporations, which it commissioned Scott Buchanan, a longtime critic of American business, to compile. Mr. Buchanan concludes that only a more powerful government can save Americans from the tyranny of the corporations. . . . The Ford Motor Company, which has been running at about 85 per cent of capacity, plans to cut down, beginning in the third quarter, to 50 per cent.




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