HUMAN EVENTS

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• Publication Date: September 8, 1961
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But oc g s most revealing switch came last wee
when the Governor wired GOP House Leader
Charles Halleck (Ind.) that he was "unalterably
opposed" to Treasury financing of JFK's long-term
foreign aid program.
Previously he had wired all GOP members of
Congress urging them to support the Kennedy pro-
gram, and received fierce conservative rebuttals
for his efforts. By opposing Treasury financing of
the long-term loans, Rockefeller has been able to
reverse himself without too much embarrassment.
Brazil's Bombshell: Curbstone opinion on Capitol
Hill to the events in Brazil runs somewhat like
this: "It looks like a good thing, when the Brazilians
force out a President who started flirting with
Moscow and refuse to take a Vice President who
gets into bed with the Kremlin." But some are
concerned and thoughtful, recalling that tradi-
tionally Brazil has been our best friend in the
Americas. What caused such things to happen
and why does Brazil's internal situation face such
uncertainty now? 1101
The answer comes from a well-known former US
diplomat whose reputation as an expert on Latin
America is of high standing. The Hon. Spruille
Braden, once Ambassador to Argentina and Cuba
and once head of State's Latin American Division,
told HUMAN EVENTS: "Don't blame the Brazilians.
don't even blame Quadros too much. The responsi-
bility lies squarely with the Kennedy Administration
which has been literally fomenting the left-wing
revolution in this hemisphere, and thereby playing
right into the hands of international communism.
Adlai Stevenson's deportment on his recent trip
through Latin America shows that-preaching his
brand of Marxian socialism to our Southern neigh-
bors wherever he went."
The army and conservative elements a
various anti-Communists, like Carlos Lacerda,
Governor of Guanabara (the state in which Rio
de Janeiro is located), loom as leaders of a move-
ment to have a truly anti-Communist and soun
Administration in Brazil.
Experts on Latin America say any new Brazilian
Administration that is thoroughly anti-Com-
munist, stands for private enterprise and respects
the rights of private property, not only of Brazilians
but also of foreigners, should enjoy the support of
Washington.
Education Bill: The smashing (242-170) defeat
of the Administration's Federal aid-to-education bill
last week-a White House setback in the domestic
field comparable to the Cuban fiasco in Kennedy's
foreign policy-came as little surprise to anti-bill
strategists on Capitol Hill. Key Southern Demo-
crats, headed by Rep. Howard Smith of Virginia,
reportedly decided in a weekend conference that
they had the votes to defeat the legislation. Speaker
Sam Rayburn, it is said by close sources, knew that
he was licked, that the bill" would be dead before the
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for the bill was intense, with Executive visitors',
covering the House chambers and placing many
Congressmen under strong pressure to support the
President. But what had already turned the tide-
and accounted for the whopping Administration
defeat-was the strong outpouring of grass-roots
mail against Federal aid to education. One Southern
member reported, aside from his heavy home mail,
150 anti-aid letters and telegrams from individuals
in the Midwest.
Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D.-
S.C.), one of the leaders of the coalition which
defeated the bill, stated minutes after the vote :
"This was the greatest coalition victory this year
.... This Federal education bill got exactly what it
deserved. We do not have money in Washington to
give anyone. It is the taxpayers' money, and this
was a vie for the taxpayers and for lo4 and
state rol of education."
'Goodwin's Cozy Chat: It has been little noted
by the press that Richard Goodwin, the President's
Latin American adviser who held the hotly-discussed
conversation with Cuba's Che Guevara in Monte-
video on August 16, was an initiator of the cynical
"tractors for freedom" deal.
Goodwin is also known as a staunch supporter of
the Americans for Democratic Action, which last
May called for closer ties between the US and
Castro's Cuba.
It is widely believed on Capitol Hill that Goodwin
spoke with Guevara about "settling differences"
between the two countries, thereby establishing the
rapprochement Cuba vigorously has been seeking as
a result of internal differences. The Senate Foreign
Relations Committee has decided to interrogate the
31-year-old Latin American "expert," who, until
this year, had no diplomatic experience south of the
nvention : The supposedly neutral:
ts,tL"~fb}nated, United States National Studen
Association held its annual convention last week in
Madison, Wisconsin-and suffered a blow from a
small group of conservative students that, say
veteran observers, may "permanently discredit it."
(NSA claims to represent students in America's
CHARLES COBURN, note
motion picture screen actor,
who passed away August 30,
fought communism in the
motion picture colony when
to do so so was to be black-
listed-getting inferior parts
or no parts at all. He believed
in the private enterprise
system. He constantly urged
his fellow-actors to read
HUMAN EVENTS. In one
of his letters to Frank C.
Hanighen, he wrote:
"I have been a subscriber
to HUMAN EVENTS for
some time, and I find it a
beacon on important political
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2,300 colleges and universities, although the num er
of schools actually represented in NSA totals only
about 390-and only half of these were represented
at last week's convention.)
NSA passed resolutions condemning the House
Committee on Un-American Activities and last
spring's abortive Cuban invasion.
The resolution condemning the latter was, report
insiders, supported by one Marvin Markman, an
"observer" from the Progressive Youth Organiz-
ing Committee. Markman was identified in Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee hearings on April
25, 1961, as a Communist, while the PYOC is the
foundation for the new national youth organization
of the Communist party.
Ironically, the NSA constitution states that "No-
body acting in behalf of USNSA shall participate
in . . . partisan political activities."
As a result of NSA's numerous blatant examples
of pressuring members to follow the left-wing line,
many delegates left Madison completely disen-
chanted, with calls for withdrawing from the organi-
zation heard within delegations from Princeton,
Indiana, Missouri, and Loyola. Says one tired con-
servative delegate : "Reforming NSA is like trying
to reform Americans for Democratic Action. But
I believe that NSA has been exposed for what it
really is, and that the incredible amount of dissatis-
faction here will culminate in many withdrawals"
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Co' Congressman Clement J. Zablock (D.-
Wis.) has repeatedly asked (so far without success)
Democratic National Chairman John Bailey to fire
his special assista t, Paul Corbin. The Milwaukee
Journal stated Au ust 24 that Corbin worked for
Communist cause 15 years ago in close contact
with several kno Reds, and that he "embraced"
the late Senator loseph McCarthy at a Wisconsin
Americann, gion eeting. (The Milwaukee Journal
story was re d on page 16301 of the Congres-
sional Record, A 9, 1961.)
A former adv -tising so for the CIO and
other unions, C bin rose to p 1 prominence
when he was to n on by the Kenn edys to aid in
the 1960 Wisco in primary. The Journal stated
that Corbin wa a special favorite of Robert Ken-
nedy.
Regarding th Milwaukee Journal article, Wiscon-
sin Republican ongressman William K. Van Pelt
congratulated ablocki for his concern, and added :
"The article discloses that Mr. Corbin is not only
Mr. Bailey's special assistant, but is a man of
extensive influence- in the Administration, screening
and selecting some of the most highly placed persons
tsi ,tJ e Federal government."
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EVENT A ust 11, 1961, Page 510), rather than the
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What Did Ave ay.. An artic e y co umnist
Drew Pearson, based on his interview with Khrush-
chev in the USSR, hit the Nation's Capital with
extraordinary calm last week. But the nature of
the dispatch should produce a considerable propa-
anda windfall for Republicans.
Pearson, an avowed friend of the Kennedy Ad-
ministration, claimed that Khrushchev told him that
he refused to publicly support Kennedy during the
election last year because "Averell Harriman had
warned us not to. He said, `If you chide Nixon,
chide Kennedy a little, too. It will help!' "
According to the Pearson dispatch, Khrushchev
adamantly refused to release the RB-47 fliers before
the election because it might have aided Nixon.
Representative Thomas B. Curtis (R.-Mo.)
claimed that, if Pearson's column regarding Harri-
man was accurate, this represented "serious inter-
ference" with the American electoral process. It
would be so incredible, he asserted, to have "one
of the Democratic leaders discussing the matter of
the 1960 elections with Mr. Khrushchev, that it
certainly requires a prompt denial or explanation
cn the part of Mr. Averell Harriman."
Curtis suggested that both Pearson and Harriman
be filed before appropriate committees in order to
to the bottom of this, because "certainly all of
us in America do not want to have leaders of either
party going to the Soviet Union to have them
participate and try to influence American elec-
Texas : One of the leading conservatives in the
Lone Star State apparently will join the exodus
from the Democratic party and become the GOP
candidate for governor next year. He is Jack Cox,
a drilling contractor and runner-up to Governor
Price Daniel in last year's Democratic gubernatorial
primary.
Cox is young and articulate in the Tower-
Alger tradition. He has stated that "in the next
two years there will be a shifting of lines in Texas
politics to get the conservatives on one side of the
fence." Republicans are optimistic about Cox's
chances against Daniel, because in 1960 he ran very
strongly in rural districts. With this advantage,
plus the Republican strength in the larger towns and
cities, many now consider Cox an excellent bet to
become the state's first Republican chief executive.
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