THE WEEK

We are as pleased as punch at the President’s recommendation for a half-billion-dollar cut in foreign aid appropriations (and would have been twice as pleased had he made it a billion instead of half a billion). But if we were Mr. Dulles, or any of the other Administration spokesmen who-—with the President’s blessing, of course—have been telling the nation that the issue at stake in foreign aid is survival itself, we would be hopping mad. The Duke of Plaza Toro, who led his army from behind because he found it less exciting, must have been an exasperating fellow to serve under—and is, on any showing, a poor model for the American Commander-in-Chief to be imitating.

A rank-and-file mill worker, Donald C. Rarick, who charges a furnace at U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in McKeesport, Pa., polled more than a third of the total vote of the United Steelworkers of America in an impromptu effort to unseat David J. McDonald, who hung on to the presidency by virtue of his control over the union’s election machinery. Rarick financed his campaign by passing the hat at insurgent rallies organized to protest a union convention decision to raise the dues from $3 to $5 a month and to increase McDonald’s salary to $50,000 a year. At this point we haven’t been able to recover our breath to face the spectacle of the mouse roaring at the cat. All we can muster by way of comment is that we thought we’d never live to see the day; and are only sorry that the mouse didn’t walk off with the day.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

We are as pleased as punch at the President’s recommendation for a half-billion-dollar cut in foreign aid appropriations (and would have been twice as pleased had he made it a billion instead of half a billion). But if we were Mr. Dulles, or any of the other Administration spokesmen who-—with the President’s blessing, of course—have been telling the nation that the issue at stake in foreign aid is survival itself, we would be hopping mad. The Duke of Plaza Toro, who led his army from behind because he found it less exciting, must have been an exasperating fellow to serve under—and is, on any showing, a poor model for the American Commander-in-Chief to be imitating.

A rank-and-file mill worker, Donald C. Rarick, who charges a furnace at U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in McKeesport, Pa., polled more than a third of the total vote of the United Steelworkers of America in an impromptu effort to unseat David J. McDonald, who hung on to the presidency by virtue of his control over the union’s election machinery. Rarick financed his campaign by passing the hat at insurgent rallies organized to protest a union convention decision to raise the dues from $3 to $5 a month and to increase McDonald’s salary to $50,000 a year. At this point we haven’t been able to recover our breath to face the spectacle of the mouse roaring at the cat. All we can muster by way of comment is that we thought we’d never live to see the day; and are only sorry that the mouse didn’t walk off with the day.